Ya Know .....

I Like A GOOD Show ...
When It's Done ... WELL ... !!!!!

From Concerts To Dramas ...
To Flicks That Hit HARDER ...
Than ... ABUSIVE Partners ... !!!!

Shows That EXPOSE ...
How Low People Go ...
Are Also The Type ...
That INSPIRE Rhymes ...
That Show How My Mind ...
Is Prone To Design ...
Wordplay That grOWS ...
And Eventually FLOWS ...
Like ... Lyrical PRO's ... !!!!

Which Just Goes To Show ...
That Sometimes What's BITTER ...
Can Turn Into ... " GOLD " ... !!!

GOLDEN Like ... " Globes " ...
At Those Award Shows ... !!!

From TV ... To Music ...
Award Shows Be CHOOSING ...
ALL Kinds of ... " Creators " ... !!!!!!!!!
Show STOPPERS And Makers ...
of Shows Put To Paper ...
That Somehow Much Later ...
Become Something GREATER ... !!!!!!

Than ... P.O.T.U.S Debaters ... !!!

Whose Shows Are A JOKE ...
Because They ... Like Coc' ...
Are Just Good For DOPES ... !!!!
WITHOUT ... " Ali's ROPE " ... !!!!!!

Things That They ... " Quote " ...
Just Show That Their Notes ...
Are DUD Like ... The HOPE ...
They CLAIM They'll PROVIDE ...
For ... " Citizens' Lives ' " ... !!!!

ALL SHOW But What's TOLD ... ?
As Their Show ... UNFOLDS ...
Is A ... WHOLE HEAP of TELL ...
That Has Some FOUL SMELLS ... !!!!!

"He SAYS THIS And She SAYS THAT !"

Only To FIND That Their Show's Built To ... " TRAP " ...
People Like RATS When Cats REFUSE NAPS ... !!!!!
And Government Plans That Leave Foreign Lands ...

In ...... MURDEROUS Hands ...... !!!!!

Kind of Like ... YEAH ...
That Show ... " HOMELAND " ... !?!

But Of Course WHAT They Show ...
Is How They CONTROL Their Soldiers Like DRONES ... !!!!!

To SHOW ... NO REMORSE ... !!!
When KILLING'S The Course ...
That They CHOOSE To FOLLOW ... ?!?
That Leave People HOLLOW ... !?!

FILLED UP With HOLES ... !!!
Like Shows That EXPOSE ...
A LACK of PRECISION ...
In How They're DELIVERED ... !!!!!

Shows That Are Given ...
By Heads Who DON'T Listen ...

So Find That Their Thinking ...
Is FAR FROM ...... Positioned ......
From Places Where BUILDING ...
HELPS Them ... Make A Living ... !!!

The Path That I've CHOSEN ...
Has Shown That When Written ...
Big Virge Words Are POTENT ... !!!

So REJECT The ... " Notion " ...
of ... Impossible Missions ... !!!!!

I Show Up Like ... " COCHRAN' " ...
WITHOUT ... OJ Simpson ... !!!!!

Making A ... " KILLING " ...
WITHOUT Facing Prison ... !!!

So YES Now You KNOW ...
That When My Pen FLOWS ...

Whether DRIVEN By Rhythm ...
Or Just ... Simple Prose ...

It's REALLY A ... " Given " ...
That Things ... " Big Virge Written " ...

When Taken From Page ...
And Spoken On Stage ...
Or ON ... Lines of BASS ...

DISPLAY What Is Known ...

As YES A ... Good ...

......... " SHOW " .......

his starred in a
television show
and he wore three
stripes in a row

he'd conduct business
behind the captain's back
as the Indians were
staging a faux attack

his sidekick was a
little man known as Agarn
and they'd regularly
meet at the saloon bar

no doubt he did
marshal a rag tag troop
and inside the fort he had
command of its coop  

the show was filmed
in a civil war setting
and of its name I'll
not be forgetting

Lately I thought
The more I forced
A tug on my lips,
A glint in my eyes,
A light in my face
Like the flicker of flames
As they dance in the fire,
The easier it would be,
The more natural it would feel,
And maybe even some day
My mind would recall
How it felt to smile
And I would be able to
Do it for real.

frosty crystals clung to
light shows on windowsills
they ran faster than their hands
could touch
on the run from racing time
streams of comfort left
rainy roads bare
to them,
nothing on earth compared

I hate lots of the things you do
I'd hate the absence of them more
Over my room your items are scattered
Strewn with pieces of you I adore

Cannot imagine not seeing your ***** clothes
Tangle knots with mine
I've had to endure it before
Do not think I could a second time

There are endearing similarities
The many small messes you make
Being your partner is kinda like being with my twin
At moments grows hard to take

We need no one else but each other
Phrase we tell ourselves on repeat
Our expressions beg to differ
Barely force eyes to meet

It is like we speak different languages
We try to communicate
Make me feel special after arguing
Always ten minutes too late

Thrill of happiness I get
Being together and touching your skin
Want you to know my love is just as strong
As silken spiderwebs of lies you spin

You show how you really feel
When blowing me off with a wave
You'll regret what you're tossing aside
The day I'm beneath the ground in my grave

I am missing a large portion of my heart
A lot inside that's been slashed apart
Forfeited innocence in order to get high
Need to understand it
Need to know why

Need a magnifying glass to see the clues
I'm free to find all the ways that before I did lose
Thoughts kept me on the brink of drowning every day
In the nightmare failing to take me away

I ate and overgorged on rich fantasies
Like colored candy ingested impossibilities
Needed more than temporary flavor
Needed a taste I could always savor

Feed my demons with an abundance of doubt
Awakened in body inside and out
Infestation of insecurity
Like plankton multiplying
Blooming in sea

Floor barely visible underneath clustered stuff
Ask myself why I don't care enough
Brain needs rewiring in the worst kind of way
Stopped feeling human
Instead a statue made of clay

To fix all that is broken is an unrealistic concept
Dance around things I'm not ready to accept
Cloak my open wounds
Hide pain that's only mine to know
Pretend underneath is as undamaged as the parts that show