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When I was looking for a dog there you were
the picture on the rescue site
I was more than sure
you’d be a part of my life
(EXTRA! You saved my life!)
You came for a visit from your foster home
and jumped in my lap
then decided to make my home your home.
You ran and jumped on my bed preparing to set up your camp
It’s funny how I was so certain from a picture I knew you were my dog
and how in an instant on your first visit you knew it too.
Two peas in a pod
that both needed good homes and to be rescued.

Bloody Hands

From the 1st to the 46th
Name me a president without blood on their hands
or those who don’t make you violently sick
From the attempted extermination policies of Natives
to evacuating Afghanistan
The massacres across Asia, Japanese Internment Camps, to bombing Gaza Strip
Was Pearl Harbor allowed to happen to enter WWII?
Was 9/11 an inside job?
I don’t know but Lincoln said hang 38 Dakotas and do what you gotta do
Palestinians removed because it was decided where Israel belonged by the Bible – the Word of God
The Contras in Central America
Us training economic terrorists
A divided Korea here we come
Hanoi and Saigon are you hearing us?
We ran into Iran, Carter had to plead to get out every hostage
Trump had to murder an Iranian leader
The more I think the more I get nausea
Our standoff with Iran and Trump stopped because COVID emerged as the new world leader
Schools shot up BUT HEY the president sends his thoughts and prayers
They don’t care, they just want to keep or help gain more chairs
11 hours of HRC interrogated about Benghazi
We evacuated South Vietnam and abandoned the South Vietnamese and Hmong soldiers to be killed in their countries
From the Revolution, Spanish War, 1812, and so forth
as you scream the President has blood on his hands
Remember all that came before
they got blood on their hands
when they took an oath on a book to Preside this land.

Sept 12th

2015

The milestone season is gone
back to everyday living.
Except though Sept 12th I realizing I’m still living.
Still very much alive
It hits me every year I out lived you
My older brother is now my younger
and the realization leaves me confused
I still call you my older brother
but you were 24 and now I’ll be 29
I try to not let the thought even bother
but some days it’s stuck in my mind.
Who’s the oldest to between us?
I can’t make it make sense
and even my spiraling questions from depression can’t keep up.
Younger but older it doesn’t make sense.

Crooked

From 2013

You’re worse than a crook to me
Something so special you took from me
I see you and you won’t look at me
even though I was your victim
Didn’t understand then the system
Not the justice because there is no justice
It’s just us
and my word against yours
Devilishly you know what occurred
but you’re a coward – that’s my word
I say as I try not to replay
that entire day
but the images melt me down to a headache
and some days it’s all over my face

DMX

They can say what they want about your lyrics
but when it comes down to it it was about the lives you touched
I was depressed being sick but those songs and prayers helped lift my spirit
You preached life could be tough but God is ALL LOVE
I did my best to pray every night
I read the Bible
I had posters of you on my wall, so it felt like you were looking from the corner of my eyes
and try as I might to pray and talk to God right
I’d forget or get too angry to speak to Him for while
I wouldn’t look at your posters
Any light I saw I turned off and just turned the TV on
If I felt guilty enough I’d pray but only as a poser
So it didn’t last long.
You left this world too early Earl
You’re a legend, hero, and icon
everything you gave the world
will forever, and I mean forever, live on
We always knew you were one of a kind rapper
that no one had seen before or could ever follow after

X BABY

Lost Jobs To God Pt II

From the Americas, Africa, Indonesia
Japan, Australia, to Polynesia
they brought and preached the “Good Book”
and claimed to be “Good People of God.”
But give it a good look
because if what they say is true they should lose their jobs.

1491 the Americas population was 100% Indigenous
1492 Columbus “accidentally discovered” land
More Europeans followed and decided to get rid of this
“problem” of appearance of hunters, gathers, and nomads
Jesuits opened up shop and built churches.
If they really cared about the love and soul of Indigenous people
they would’ve intervened when they heard this
arrival of Europeans were now acting evil.
Men, women, and children dying from previously unknown diseases
Relocated at gun point to different territory
Manifest Destiny in the “Great Name” of Jesus.
There’s so many terror stories
Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, so many untold massacres.
They said the “only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
I guessed it never occurred or they hadn’t learned
that once again, God is no Idiot.
Children ripped from their tribes and parents.
Beaten and molested at boarding schools.
They did everything to make them behave white even changing their appearance
Languages dug in mass grave like children’s bodies at the boarding schools.
All this done because they said the Indigenous were pagans and savages
Once again done in the “Glory of Your Name.”
With Fire Water and Smallpox Blankets they took advantages
to make Indigenous ashamed
and feel everything was wrong
Traditions outlawed and faded away
It’s 2021, this started 1492 – that’s how long it’s been going on
Now they kill the 1.4% of the Indigenous population with toxic waste.

Take a look at the “Good Book”
and the “Good People of God” who should’ve lost their jobs.

Lost Jobs To God Pt I

From the Americas, Africa, Indonesia
Japan, Australia, to Polynesia
they brought and preached the “Good Book”
and claimed to be “Good People of God.”
But give it a good look
because if what they say is true they should lose their jobs.

Africans exploited, forced, and tied down in ships
20 million lost their lives across the Atlantic
on the way to port.
Until they accepted a “Christian name” they were brutally whipped
Put up for auction like an animal by force
The “Good people of God” justified it with the Bible
Once again they abuse God’s name
but Moses demanded to let his people go, jeopardizing his own survival
They still used God’s Name in embarrassment and shame
In God’s Name they lynched, whipped, and raped men, women, and children.
If this is all for the Christian God He must be evil.
Even look at a White woman meant death – look at what they did to Emmet Till then
Even after they abolished slavery things would never be equal.
They used the “Good Book” to justify separating the races
In”God’s Greatness” they separated water fountains and restrooms
People of color had to walk a great distance to different places
just to find one to use.

Take a look at the “Good Book”
and the so called “People of God” who should’ve lost their jobs

Love That Sur-thrives

“A hero comes a long with the strength the carry on.”
My entire life I’ve seen my mother not only survive but sur-thrive
She carries the weight of everyone’s world on her shoulders
Selfishly we rarely ask how she’s feeling inside
But my mother’s a soldier.
She keeps going far and above
Filled with hugs, jokes, and so much love.
There’s no one who has a greater heart than she does
Mom – I love you so much
Even on our bad days
I still know you love me and that I still love you
When I’m panicking because things aren’t going a certain a way
No one calms me down like you do
There’s not enough pages in a notebook or ink a pen
to express how much I do love and appreciate you.
Like it or not, you’re not only my mother but best friend
Nobody has my heart the way you do.