cost a hundred with tax
guess it makes me feel special inside
when i 'm wearing fresh gear i don 't have to hide and i really must get some new gear soon or my ego will pop like a ten cent balloon but security is tight at all the shops every day there are more and more cops my crew is laughing at me because i 'm wearing old gear school 's almost over summer is near and i 'm sportin torn jordans
only one thing left to do
cut school friday catch the subwaydowntown check out my victims hangin around maybe i 'll get lucky and find easy prey got to get some new gear there 's no other way i 'm ready and willing i 'm packing my gun this is serious business this ain 't no fun and i can 't have my posse laughin at me
i 'mma cop something dope just wait you 'll see
come out of the station west fourth near the park brothers shooting hoops and someone remarks hey homes where you get
don 't take my air jordans away you 'd think he 'd be worried about staying alive as i took off with his sneakers there was tears in his eyes very next day
because now i needs a new jacket to wear
the last fifteen years that i have been performing all i ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world
the hunger and thirst was and still remains how do i get people who hate poetry
yo wack
you know what the problem is with you homie you don 't read other people 's poetry and you don 't got any subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration
i should have quit i mean i thought
poetry was just self expression i didn 't know you actually have to have creative control
when he was writing a broadway show i would be outside of the door i would wake him up at like six thirty in the morning to ask him who 's the best poet
i remember eating the eyes of a fish right out of the sea because he told me it was brain food
on a poet named etheridge knight and the oral nature of poetry and from that point reggie stopped becoming the best to me because what etheridge knight taught me
was that i could make my words sound like music
broadway baby
and attack the poetry with my body but that wasn 't the biggest lesson i ever learned the biggest lesson i learned was many years later when i went to beverly hills and i ran into a talent agent who looked at me up and down
i 've traveled all the way from cleveland and essex in east new york took the local six line up to the hookers of hunt 's point who were in my way on my way to master the art of space and the one to infiniteamount of man woman and child you can fit in there only so i can push them to the back of the wall with my experience
by a bully who didn 't know
that it was his father who gave it to my mother and that 's a double entendre
i 'm so experienced that when you went to the fell school and all the rich little fairy boys decided to sponsor a child in it that was me but kicked me out when i was caught teaching the fairy boys how to rob the pats off a pair of lee jeans and bring them to vim let me see chekhov pull that off
sanford meisner was my uncle artie yelling silently to himself something 's always wrong when nothing 's always right method acting
is nothing but a mixture of multiple personalities
boards don 't hit back
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