I. (1980never) A motel beacon breaking over open road Broken lights, missing letters A postcard rack Speaking to the dead, a medium in cheap gold A crystal ball card table in a gypsy shack II. (The word is hard) I try to keep the policy simple. Exactly [12].07 percent of what see, I then “sing” or “rap” A strange impulse, I know It came over me slow But when the word takes hold You simply serve its flow Though a life in verse is hardly life at all It’s more like heated breath steaming freezing bonеs The chains of songs I dragged through a hundred shows Slangеd slang for pocket change and slouched home broke Stood stage-brave before the towering snowcap spotlight And when the will to climb cold lets me alone You’ll find another in my shadow Before the next beat goes III. (An alternative history of Snoop’s first verse on “Lil’ Ghetto Boy”) [I] Woke up and rolled out of bed Said what’s up to my Lil’ homie, Half Dead Didn’t stir, so I masked my steps Curled up on the carpet Like he’s caught in a web Grill from the window through an Arabesque Like he’s serving life in a prison of light [huh] Trying to get my head right Hit the mirrored cabinet Muddy tap water and a handful of meds IV. (13th & Madison) Some Oakland signs are blinding Even them seen From inside a window seam Over 13th & Madison; Whether it’s the rising of a pipe smoke’s dark cloud Or the bottle binding him Or trouble’s simply minding him He’s dining on the wind again Till a bitter fullness is finding him The lining of his stomach seared within Thunderbolt claps striking him In the cart-pusher’s cough driving him And spare change talk Might be bullshit But lying is a sliding scale And those who can pay it Well, they will always outprice him And ain’t he some kind of god-honest When he’s [praying] like Man, whose design is this? Don’t let me find the bitch V. (Grand Ave) A string of shopping carts arced A strip mall headstone Under an overpass in memory of one who froze A week before and in the highway swish of a mid-day rain Glimmering like the thin bones of stained glass saints VI. (The Dead Leaf Drop) Yo, You can come and see me down on 13th street with a mic and mini disc scuffing the knees on my jeans; Trying to catch the last word a dead leaf reads in the course of its leap onto cold concrete VII. (Sing Anything) “Sing anything, sing anything That’s what the people say A long song, a short song To pass the time away A love song, a comic song Play me something to sing Sing something, sing something You, O yes, sing anything.”
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