The Antidote profile picture

The Antidote

Power Dies With The Man - His Cowardice Lives Forever

About Me

HOW MANY OF US WAIT FOR CONVENIENT SEASONS, DARING LIFE TO GIVE US COMPELLING REASONS? ABUSING OUR TIME, LEAVING US SPENT IGNORING THAT LIFE IS A GIFT THAT IS LENT EXPECTING TO BE OFFERED A MORE BEAUTIFUL MEANING THAN THE LOVE AND THE TIME IN OUR HANDS WANTING TO MORPH INTO A MORE MAJESTIC BEING BUT NEVER FALLING IN LINE WITH HIS PLANS *** Check Out The Rest And Give Me Your Thoughts*** MECCA IS WONDERFUL

My Interests

Broady Boy Ace is my Brother - And I couldn't be PROUDER!

I'd like to meet:

God .....
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Jay
Birthday: Five Four
Birthplace: Philadelph
Current Location: Durham
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Height: 6 even
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: The Diaspora
The Shoes You Wore Today: The New Balance Casual Menswear joints
Your Weakness: Carbs, Fats and Proteins
Your Fears: Dying Unhappy and Full of Regrets
Your Perfect Pizza: From Amantes and invisible to others
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Generate More $$$ Than Any Other Year Of My Life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: LOL / Using letters in the place of whole words
Thoughts First Waking Up: "Is it really 8:05 again"?
Your Best Physical Feature: my dashing and debonair frown
Your Bedtime: Between 11pm and 4am, depending on if I'm winning
Your Most Missed Memory: Senior year of high school
Pepsi or Coke: I just say naw
MacDonalds or Burger King: Hardees burgers, no other exists
Single or Group Dates: Single.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: What kinda question is this?
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: I don't do drugs
Do you Smoke: Only in my past
Do you Swear: Only in my head.
Do you Sing: Only in my shower
Do you Shower Daily: What kinda question is this?
Have you Been in Love: Ya
Do you want to go to College: again....yes
Do you want to get Married: again...no
Do you belive in yourself: mostly yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: never
Do you think you are Attractive: from my eyebrows up
Are you a Health Freak: that's funny
Do you get along with your Parents: yes sir
Do you like Thunderstorms: no ma'am
Do you play an Instrument: I play the Hum
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: naw
In the past month have you Smoked:
In the past month have you been on Drugs: I just say naw
In the past month have you gone on a Date: I'm married, hommie.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes, with my daughter
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: It was a bag, not a box
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Metaphorically speakin? Yes.
In the past month have you been Dumped: Naw
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: I can't go skinny, period.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Um, like, what type of.... what do you mean?
Ever been Drunk: Once, Freshman Year, Penn, DuBois House, Rm 303, in James' room, from a single St Ides 40.
Ever been called a Tease: Nope
Ever been Beaten up: That's a subjective question. But I have been at the losing end of a brouhaha.
Ever Shoplifted: IF i DID, IT'S ALL IN THE PAST NOW!!! Why you keep bringing up old s....?
How do you want to Die: With proof that heaven awaits.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Rich, Brilliant, Dominant, Superior and Humble
What country would you most like to Visit: Kenya
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: whatever my wife is
Favourite Hair Color: whatever my wife is
Short or Long Hair: whatever my wife is
Height: whatever my wife is
Weight: whatever my wife is
Best Clothing Style: urban professional
Number of Drugs I have taken: zero, man.
Number of CDs I own: 402
Number of Piercings: zero, man
Number of Tattoos: One. Feb 21 1965. Anyone? Anyone?
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 1 = Asking the registrar if the professor really gave me a C. She said 'oops', and then changed it to a D.

WANNA EMULATE! - or - CLICK HERE IF YOU THINK I AM FABULOUS, MAN!!

Music:

Roots, Rakim, Chris Turner, Chopin, Journey, Chicago, Coltrane, Vandross, Stevie Wonder, OutKast, CeeLo, Nasir, Jill Scott

Movies:

The Movie stars in my life are: Kay, the mate; Mecca the amazing daughter; Broady the Ace of Spoken Murder; Kevin the forerunner; Tammy-Tareacko-Tarocko; Mom the Most Valuable; Dad, providing the guidance; Angel and Joy, songbirds; Royce, instrumentalist extraordinaire; Grandma the Impermeable; Randall Sims the godfather; and George Weiss the Wizard.

Books:

Non-Fiction!!

Heroes:

WEB DuBois, Paul Robeson, & Malcolm X

My Blog

Poetry: My Last Lover

MY LAST LOVER (1994)   On the darkest night ever known to me The most beautiful girl ever shown to me Said she saw not one thing wrong with me And that she was the one who belonged with me.  ...
Posted by The Antidote on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:41:00 PST

Poetry: Knightmares

To be true From the youth I've been dreaming of you Alone I'd sketch you Just to perfect you Praying reality would be as true As the dream, that I'd sketched of you - But to be true, The dre...
Posted by The Antidote on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:52:00 PST

Poetry: I Am Just Wondering

I AM JUST WONDERING (1996)   I am just wondering -                        the night was wo...
Posted by The Antidote on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:30:00 PST

Poetry: Convenient Seasons

How many of us wait for convenient seasons, Daring life to give us compelling reasons? Abusing our time, leaving us spent Ignoring that life is a gift that is lent   Expecting to be offer...
Posted by The Antidote on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:20:00 PST

Poetry: His Poetry

We are expression We are His words His good and bad The tragic and triumphant He manifests through us Not just through the chaste But all of us We are meter and measure We are wants and need We are H...
Posted by The Antidote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:02:00 PST

Poetry: Sensible

Smelling you in the winds of Spring still grass bleed, misting your memory all about the city fields scented and trimmed by those who need you bless me, indebt me, I breathe and live youfeeling what ...
Posted by The Antidote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:20:00 PST

Commentary: Boiling Point

Many times, events cause us to react. With anger or sadness, with remorse or joy, pride or shame. A movie like Akeela and the Bee. The nightly messages of Michael Savage. News of being spied upon for ...
Posted by The Antidote on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:41:00 PST

Poetry: Let's Just Be Together

Lets go to a movie and not pay attention Find a seat near the aisle or the wall Or the front or the back or the upper extension Since the movie means nothing at all   Lets walk to the park where ...
Posted by The Antidote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:10:00 PST

Poetry: What Love Does

If you say - Like the orchestrated dance of dreams, That youd want to touch In an invisible way - I would   If you say - dampen my love, as traveling storms from the west, surely - I should  ...
Posted by The Antidote on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:46:00 PST