sidewalk school

sidewalk school

beating the balls of my finger tips
goating by with windshields blown
notice the voice bass, method
owner of the industry
god to the money makers
poet to the asphalt powder life
close my eyes
see pulses thrown through air
like human waves
like the ripple of love
caused by the knowledge of hate
it is euphoria losing footing on the cement cracks
in lost moments, rhythm
pittypop
mmmTss
elementary kids beating on their thighs
eachothers backbones
drumbones
poetry is dead
to
eras of spark(l)ing
new
po
et
ry
rhythm kept on street feet
marching with their shoulders
and heads slying back hands balanced in futher
backwards and forwards motions holding invisible
court rocks
nations smirking
to understood bass lines hiding behind bass lines
genius' cousins rolling dice of vinyl
red scratches black chord
ownership, respect, and antiphonic phonies
falling by the waistside for king hierarchies
own a roadside moment, through car stereos
the people on the street
chumps bounding for doorways
to allude the thumpkicks in their backs
if they
could just
enjoy the cer-e-mon'ie
black faces turned upwards in a sun
in-between bass hums
thanking warm liquid hip hop angels
life still has its melodies
living for moments
getting by on monks in cherokees
ground effects and amplified symphonies
. choruses of hard ripples .
musichaic erotisisms
a legion of american blackness
human sound awareness
old women cursing with their lips attempting to
kill off personal grins
father's shaking wisdom heads as their
tapping rapping fingers defy them
on the backs of their knuckles: agreeing
lovers beating their breasts for metronomes
and reported deaths
reported in a lovespoken way
with ancient rhymes carrying souls to the afterworld
floating on samples
to glorify the pasts of other deaths
and other deaths
method,
he brings us back
85year deacon of jazz
walking with his cane
says
damn, does that boy know
he's a badass?