((read in spoken word voice))

I'm so sick and tired
of being
sick...and
tired
of being.

I love my self.
spoken word
is my voice
but by choice
I despise
the rise
and
f
a
l
l
of the spoken word
voice.

overused
the muse for poetic
views has
been
jaded
faded
into the distance

for instance
I was at a venue
where pretention was on the menu
and they sang the def poets' song of
airy voices over swaying beats?-
I
grimaced my face at the poem about nothing new
and witnessed the light being sucked from the room-
vaccumn

nothing but space
with no life in site
more than willing to resite
or rewrite
the painfully overdone

one
level speach stuck in monitone
doin' their best snapped impressions of Love Jones
coffee house writings
with natural headed patrons
neo-soul
beats
sweet smell of candle lighting

and art on brick walls
and art on brick walls
what a scene for cliche
that
art
on
brick walls
while the he say she say
speaks between those brick halls

and if it weren't for the pop culture,
for the Chrystler, and Dodge
...
you wouldn't even know what a Spoken word was

so take off your cuffie (sp?)
put back on your white tee
cause the Kinte don't mean spiritual
and
those
'locks don't say free

you've been playin with my culture too long

I just call it like I see it
so like God

I speak a-
word
into existance
powerful prose preacher
so,
use your regular voice
and listen to it drop
spoken word:
for today
I just need ya
to

STOP!


Keep shiining! I know some of ya'll can feel this sudden infultration of our sacred culture never know you might be one of 'em.

I be FEELIN you... I hate that cot dam spoken word voice, it makes me want to thug as hard as humanly possible off gp... Might pop a bottle of Cris and I aint even like that..

But I dug this piece, you're a talented being MJ.

tell me how you do it!? LOL Keep shining!

sincerely, what do you mean moon?

off you wanting to be gangsta with the spoken word cats. That's just a quote from a beenie seigal song.keeping shining tho'

I've seen this happen. It's sad. But people clap anyway, cuz we're of the "conscious" crowd. Full of "love" and "appreciation" for people's art. But bump that, if it's jaded, it's jaded. And you brought that out all through this piece here, love. This was great. Thumbs North. ~one~

this was TRUE love. No snaps PLEASE. Yo I like being called a being (so poetic) allowing me to briefly disassociate myself with my plight of womanhood and large breasts!LOL keep shining ya'll I guess everyone else is using the voice and has no idea why I'm so aggy over it. Well tommorrow's another day and hopefully another piece. LOVE.

asi es la reina de la cypher, palabras! i hate when people can't be them, and change their style to be more "mainstream", but yall aready knew that. LOL! write on, write on!

yes rains but can't purge
cause Aiden waves the cleansing fire.
LOVE

I loved this

would love to be sitting there as you read this live

and im sure someone already told ya but its kufi


very very tight

No no one told me yet but I already knew it was wrong. I spell badly in every language I know. What can I say I'm a writer. LOL Keep shining! thanx for the LOVE

trust no man- the BIG J

tell them to fuck off