poemranker ::My Boyfriend's Afro Pick by horus8

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My Boyfriend's Afro Pick

Member since 2002 · Posted 13 Mar 2004 · 22 comments

Here's a poem about your comb, and how your pants don't fit. Clearing my eyes with Bosch & Laomb Fake gold chains, and pointless shit. Big Black Afro SUV with a TV Plump tan HO's in bikinis. Fucking my hat off sideways. Oh rap me your sob story About how you've worked for your glorified bona fide hoop ride and your crib designed by a VJ from MTV that thinks you are celebrity. You rap about the struggles to find a banana yellow FILA jump suit to wear to the Grammys. Flossing your kicks in thousand dollar pajamies. Your teeth are gold, my illusion brown, even Prince thinks you are a clown. Merchant, sell your dreams short Coco butter, pool side creams. This is what Ebony has made its America. My nephew's so white he hates us because he was born with the guilt. He wants to be a black rapper, and dapper, and Bobby Brown his bitch with a switch and paint the town Miami like Will Smith in a fast boat with a play station two. And a trained goat that forecasts the weather. "Ten more years of shitty evaporated recycled antiblack music by black nonmusicians". DJ Nelly Jelly and MC AssHat did an entire album about a filthy rich wombat that had the nerve to wear a band-aid on a face zit with a preference for rear ending greasy oven mitts. Don't you get it? Life is only about bitches and money and picking your afro with an ad by Nabisco about how Tupac disco'd, and started a revolution of pure Authentic greed that is even worse than white America, because it only cares about the way it looks before it goes to the club to dub. Get over it. And get that stupid fucking comb out of your hair. I mean do you realize how utterly assanine that comes across as, what in the fuck is that supposed to symbolize, your personal awareness of hygiene? You would think Bob Marley, or twenty years of perfect jazz, and Duke Ellington could fix this, but I have some serious doubts about what rap music's about, Today. It certainly has no bearing for anyone that wakes up and actually has to go to work and be relatively human.

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22 comments

[n/a] Shuushin 13-Mar-04/5:29 PM Reply
people still wear those things? Horry shirt, what a roosah.
[9] zodiac 13-Mar-04/5:44 PM Reply
Cool. And all that time I thought you were a Greco-centric blackist on account of that other poem. One thing: I would say Peter Tosh (ie, black) instead of Bob Marley (mostly white) and Miles or Coltrane (again, black) instead of Ellington. Unless you're being ironic - I can never tell.
[n/a] horus8 › zodiac 13-Mar-04/6:25 PM Reply
I'm being ironic, you nad I both know peter tosh would kick bob marleys ass, outside of the fact that marley fucking sold him out. And ellington was a fag, but both were bi racial, so I was, yes, being...
[9] zodiac › horus8 13-Mar-04/6:55 PM Reply
Sorry, my eyebrow came uncocked, and I had a moment of hywel-style earnestness. Let's go back to yo' momma jokes, shall we?
[n/a] horus8 › zodiac 13-Mar-04/9:35 PM Reply
how weird I meant for that 'nad to be an 'and' but nad was so much better.
[10] Don-Quixote 13-Mar-04/6:18 PM Reply
Atleast your room-mates don't actively rap.. and then turn around to claim "poetry must rhyme" when peaking over you shoulder as you write.. I think I had that stupid arguement with them ten times twenty and back again? But when I stole some of their crappy bland & unoriginal lyrics and made a rhymin parody? Them parrots haven't chirped since.

Blessed with ten.
[9] New Life Drug 13-Mar-04/8:01 PM Reply
amen
[9] richa 14-Mar-04/4:49 AM Reply
'About how you've worked for your
glorified bona'

-9-
[n/a] INTRANSIT 14-Mar-04/3:10 PM Reply
Just how much Ginsberg have you read?
[3] Joe-joe 15-Mar-04/3:47 PM Reply
One must first listen to the totally pointless "music" produced from the mind of Mr. 8 to appreciate the utter hypocrisy of this piece. 6 on craftsmanship 2 on message..........-4-
[3] Joe-joe › Joe-joe 15-Mar-04/3:48 PM Reply
Subtract 1 just for the hell of it.
[n/a] horus8 › Joe-joe 16-Mar-04/4:04 AM Reply
Give me an address, and I'll have my agent send you some real poetry?

www.sun-rising-poetry.com/juno.htm
[9] zodiac › horus8 16-Mar-04/8:15 AM Reply
[n/a] horus8 › zodiac 16-Mar-04/1:14 PM Reply
Rad, I love comics, and colons
[10] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Mar-04/6:59 AM Reply
"Jeremi Britt Handrinos' first collection delivers an exemplary paradox of the authenticity of life lived put into words. He toys with conventional forms like a magician and throws off the surrogate voices of the past with his own pure and stark imagery. Bold, free, raucous at times, Handrinos splits the mundane, as sudden as a cut on the finger then leaves you to taste your own blood." -10-
[10] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Mar-04/7:06 AM Reply
P.S Congratulations on your use of 'pure' and 'stark' imagery. Before writing Juno's Peacock, did you think to yourself: "Yes, I want all my imagery to be pure and stark"? Good Christ I hope so.
[n/a] wFraser Allonby Q.C.w › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Mar-04/9:46 AM Reply
I suggest you peruse the other titles available from "The Sun Rising Poetry Press":

1. Anastasia Clark, "Grieving with Poetry"

2. Pam Kimmell (ed.), "Cosmic Brownies: Poems About Lessons Learned in Life"

3.Suzan L. Wiener, "Many Facets of Love: A Collection of Love Poems"

4. Er ...

5. That's it.

I'm thinking of following the example of Jezza Brizza Hazza: I too may decide to turn my own life into a monument to the incredibly naff and the unutterably kitsch.
[n/a] horus8 › wFraser Allonby Q.C.w 16-Mar-04/1:12 PM Reply
Can't you see, I'm humbling my resolve to be the greatest poet at the lowest possible publishable level. I do enjoy Anastasia's work however. You're acting as if you expected something different than this for my first book? I would have guessed we already saw this coming. What, did you think any real publishers were going to pick me up?
[10] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › horus8 16-Mar-04/1:28 PM Reply
Don't listen to them Jeremi, I think your poetry is beautiful and amazing. You have a pure soul of crimson dragonsfyre. -10-
[n/a] horus8 › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Mar-04/2:14 PM Reply
I guess that beats the sole of your pink converse DARK ANGEL, lol, you prolific count of raising the user name bar and a four wheeled rhumba.
[n/a] horus8 › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 16-Mar-04/1:08 PM Reply
Oh now, leave them be, they're hippies and publishers of the metaphysical, lol. I mean we can't all be pure stark visionaries like myself, and the other non traditionally repudiate authors of Sun Publishing. I mean you have to give it to me, I have a fecund sense of humor about these things.
It could be worse, but not much. You should send them your 'outhouse' manuscript and see what they say? You know as a gag.
[0] Edna Sweetlove 17-Sep-06/6:22 PM Reply
Illiterate faeces.