So I picked up an extra gig working at The Prince Music Theater for two weeks for a Jazz Cabaret. So I been working like crazy - at first job yesterday from 9-3:30, went to Starbucks to do GRE homework, then went to other job from 6:30-11:00. My legs are still aching ( Read more... )

(**Its been a while.. I'm trying to find inspiration... its hard but watching Obama tonight helped a bit... a bit on my experimental side but im trying...creativity is hard to come by these days ( Read more... )

A former teacher of mine often says, "I am not responsible for other people's feelings."

I often come back to this and think a lot about it. And then I looked up "responsible" to remind myself of the meaning.
re⋅spon⋅si⋅ble
-adjective 1. answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often fol. by to or for) ( Read more... )

change clanging in pocket ( Read more... )

So I just got off the phone a while ago with a teacher from high school. She and I still talk and have lunch and it's a bit strange but hey... we have to get our guidance from somewhere. And she's an advocate of tough love and that's part of why I love her but I wasn't ready for what she put out tonight ( Read more... )

will always be felt
pins and needles in arms
that still feel you leaning on me
and the cold you must have
felt when my body
pulled away
******************************
there's nothing i could say
today
to erase what damage will come
we'll two-step on
into the dawn
but i know that we're not done

when in the course of human events
this shit stops making sense
when we lose any semblance of defense
besides silence or compliance
we need only to step up in defiance
dissolve whatever ties that
served as chains
solve for ourselves
take over the reigns
gain control over our lives
abide by laws beyond the creation of men
find ten worth saving
then take the ( Read more... )

( I don't know... I'm experimenting)

sh

slanty eyes -
brown skin -
dirty looking

she

pulls tissue from 
tettered bag - 
scars on fingers 
deep, long wounds

she is ...

asks about a street name
babbling bro  ke   n English
forgets about articles
and flops over tense
past and present 
become nearly the same

i point down the street
and make hand gestures

she is from ( Read more... )

One of the lines that I seem to always remember from the play "Raisin in the Sun" is when Momma says to Beneatha something to the effect of "Before you judge a man make sure you done take into account what hills and valleys he come through befor' he got to where he is..."

I got my haircut the other day from some place on South Street where you pay ( Read more... )

So how about our government bailing out a bunch of banks with over an estimated $188 billion of taxpayer dollars when….

“On any given night in America, anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people are homeless, according to estimates of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty’’.” (Read more... )