it is something isn’t it.
attentive and indifferent smile of an infant
getting chased by the cops with rocks in your socks that be sold
so enfamil can be purchased.
doing the wrong things for the right purpose.
It is little brother getting that degree then later on having trouble
finding a job in the workplace, it be people saying you shoulda just
started working in the first place
that first date with that special someone in your life,
future wife.
but either one not knowing.
fate & free will both being real
Holocaust, middle passage, sins of our
fathers visited upon us, starvation,
third-world nations, play-stations, x-boxes and i-phones
purchasing of bottled water
even though the water in our homes is all well and good,
while all wells in certain hoods are shot to hell
purposely poisoned and polluted by militia’s because
to genocide it is conducive.
Paper Tiger coalitions, nations united so loud
in their silence.
Not seeing the forest for the trees.
Dime bags, newports and duce duces used to help us do this,
to get through this.
seeking salvation through finding Jesus
better living through ministry
temporarily escaping via controlled substances
better living through chemistry.
making it up as we go along.
so it goes