Monday, March 31, 2014

To Be or Not to Be? -- Modern Emulation

To stand, or not to stand: that is the question: 
Whether 'tis expected in society to become 
the mundane and unoriginal beings of past beings; 
Or to dance and frolic in a life of chill, 
And live happy. 
To withstand; to resist 
The ebb and flow of men life you, 
The sea of beats and rushing water. 
Trees of honesty that vibes with the course of the wind. 
To chill; to party; 
To rush: to even love, and open yourself for the pain, the trouble 
For in chill, and social connection we feel, 
Hurt. When we’re crying from the jolt of love; 
We should have stand; should have  
Resisted the quest 
Of happiness, movement, life; 
The wired fence of a minefield dream. 
In the sake of honesty, to become a pencil pusher? 
To despise the wretches of the idea itself. 
 To not know. To want to know. To finally know. 
A friend’s forceful farce face, 
A languished lie of love, 
In the sake of honesty? 
The thumpa-thumpa of lights and sound never lie. 
Never hurts. 
The realization tomorrow does. 
The dawn of jazz, 
And you’re peers frowns antipathy. 
The nostalgia of the past, 
And the fear of the future. 
A world of lost, strife against strife, 
Unnatural pain we all have to suffer. 
Products of this dystopian society 
Isn’t that the natural end anyway? 
Social upbringings taint us all, 
Immobile to anything bigger than ourselves.

-Kacy

Saturday, March 22, 2014

RANT--


“Mothers are these things that we all have.”
“Actually, no, they’re not things.”
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
I looked at him
“rant”
“rant”

“rant”
In awe, because I don’t think he knows.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
He does not now.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
How much I love him.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
I want to lean in.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
I want to kiss him.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
So I lean in in.
“rant”
“rant”
“rant”
He stops ranting.
And I kiss him.
The rest is history.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

LESSONS WE LEARN ---

LESSONS WE LEARN—
I remember getting slapped
across the face with my “guardian’s” leather
belt, and as it brushed
of my face,
me of course, leaving
drool and trickles of blood
on the belt
itself.
And the belt leaving its rigid impressions
on my face,
it,
swollen, of course, til the next day.
The belt,
 itself,
being,
my “guardian’s” lesson on how a man is supposed act.
And what a man is supposed to like.
And how man is supposed to fuck.
And how a men are not to like men, but women.
I remember crying so much,
not knowing what I was doing wrong.
Barely able to catch my breath
and getting beaten as I was told to “shut the fuck up.”
A slave to the idea of a life of a typical
black
man
in the Caribbean.
Then I remember where I was…
And I remember I had to smile.
I smile now.