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Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it.

i'm kind of a big deal....

About Me

BR
I'm eloping with a star. it is not a special star to anybody else. its merely a small dot in the left corner of the sky. it winks at me some nights because i lay awake. i havent slept in many moons. an oasis is growing beneath my eyes. i wander far into deserts and try to count grains of sand. there are no sheep.
Sometimes I hear oceans in my belly. they erupt from my eyes at the most inopportune times. my feet rumble like volcanoes. i am constantly bursting, bubbling over, smoking, frothing. a bitch is brewing. so i play miles davis. i quit smoking weed. so sober the sky is all black with holes punched into it. a million times by the same tiny fist.
i swing. there are parks on rooftops in my dreams. i chase after you holding out my hands. scream holy holy! please come back to me! oh please come back to me. at night, my pillows hold me and keep me warm. they are deflated. they have no arms and stay limp. we try to die until the sun rises. it hurts my eyes and i haven't been able to differentiate rays in a while.
have you ever been happy? one time last july. i felt it. relief. everything was right. for a moment. there was no sound. the world stopped moving. i thought there would be a tornado later. there was. i stayed outside to watch it sweep up all my things. my soul lives in a trailer park with wings. it is isolated and so it blows around but never away. just flies with the currents of wind. lets its insides flow out. like blood. or truth. or pain. when i awaken, i realize i am layin onto of a crater in Mexico. an olmec head with my nose. i must be ancient i think. then i open my mouth. can you hear me screaming?
all of my art is for sale.
what I do There are events coming up in March! I am raising money for a cooperative community store. This store will carry merchandise from local creators, musicians, artists, designers and craftmakers for a flat fee of $35 per month. The store takes no commission from sold items and will take items to multiple festivals and events across the country! Come out and support this venture: To open April 1 2008!
March 15
March 16 and every SUNDAY!
March 18 SPECIAL EDITION!!!!!
March 19 and every WEDNESDAY
March 22
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Member Since: 1/12/2006
Band Website: aurorablackartsfestival.com
Influences: My godchildren. Allah, Buddha, Nana Nyame, El Dio, Jesus, Nzinga, Asar, Ma'at, donny hathaway, isaiah thomas, hitler, fidel castro, elaine browne, paula collins, oprah winfrey, the KKK, Malcolm X, Mary, Mother Theresa, Pancho Villa, Ghandi, Outkast, D'Angelo, The Cosby Show, Tetris, The Simpsons, Thank You For Not Smoking, the Holy ghost, Amenhotep and Nefertiti, Nikki Giovanni, George Jackson, Bell Hooks, lena horne, dianna ross, tupac, jimmie hendrix, john the baptist, jada pinkett, michael jackson and a brotha named JC Cummings.
Sounds Like: mahalia jackson, angela davis, queen latifah, oya, and god in a spoken word cipher where the loser challenges the devil to a one on one dance off in a crowded, smoky room to see who has the greatest reggae hips
Type of Label: None

My Blog

on burying best friends and grandmothers

On burying best friends and grandmas: a spell My grandmother's best friend is named Shane.  Shane turned 80 this year.  Her best friend from childhood, Katherine Cherry, passed away on Mond...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:42:00 PST

I admit it, I beat myself up lol for all the hataz!

I beat myself up. It started in childhood, I'm sure.  An insecure push to be better, best at everything I did.  Have a better vision, a bigger event, a better impact.  And even when I...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:33:00 PST

listen to an interview on ITUNES

make sure you check me out, listen to the interview.  you can download the podcast from ITUNES simply by going into ITUNES Podcasts and searching Spoken Rhythmz.  Download the pod and you'll...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:00:00 PST

eulogy for a black man still alive

This young man has my face.  His features are young, only a hint of moustache beginning to appear on his downturned upper lip.  His mouth is creased darkly at the edges.  Sometimes you ...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:10:00 PST

Day La's Soul (the honest truth about a sista)

Maybe if I tell you my whole story you'll feel like I'm too damaged to be worth investing in.  That would be sad and I hope it doesn't become the case; I can be honest so long as I don't feel pun...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:43:00 PST

Captain-Save-A-Ho and other phenomena of the Urban Goddess

I wonder if in Africa, there is a folktale of a woman, a queen, who was in love with a villager, a slave, a peasant.  Perhaps the first book in many of our bibles, contains the story of this empr...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:40:00 PST

pigeons

One time I wasn't just black. And a woman asked me howI dance so wildly, like I was free. At first Iwondered if she knew I was black. That rhythm camefrom listening to Arrested Development with mypare...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:22:00 PST

grabbing nipples at the club

yeah, that really is the title of my blog and that is exactly what it is about...though probably not nearly as sleazy as you would have hoped.   So Tuesday night, I'm at this bar with my sistren....
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:26:00 PST

a woman is no more than an abortion

This is not written to be foul in any way.  It comes from extreme pain, it is therapuetic, honest possibly to a fault.  The main character's names have not been changed because there is a le...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:29:00 PST

from nubia to black academics, women with essence and commediennes who work at ross

this poem is by my sister, nubia.  unfortunately, it is all completely true, based on conversations we had with "lovers" in the past six weeks.  it got a standing ovation at all the worst pl...
Posted by Day is screaming. wondering if you can hear it. on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:27:00 PST