Artists are free to do things that would end most entertainers careers. Entertainers are free to do things that would make most artists quit their craft. Does any of this make sense to you? — Sean King
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Next to the Stage..
Mama
Look at the love poet
Daddy
Look at the angry black poet
Ooh!!
Look at the funny poet
Showing his ass
Poets pour their souls
Into microphones on stages
Spectators pay
Then applaud
In approval of the words
Being hurled from the cages
The stage
Is a zoo
It’s okay
You can pet him
He won’t bite
He’s safe to bring home
He’s housebroke
Like circus animals
Poets are tamed
Transformed from
Truthful closet poets
To farm raised performers
By promoters
Pimping poetry
To make cash
In exchange for the fame
From freedom writers
To house poets
Regurgitating the same
Words
Again
and again
and again
Next to the stage
We have “REPEAT”
Next to the Stage... Repeat
Tools of my Soul
I would be lying if I said
I was working to improve my art
I am not an artist
What is true
I am working to improve humanity
I am human
Much like a man uses a hammer and nails
To build a home for his family
My soul uses words
To build a future for humanity
Words are the tools
Of my soul
Tomorrow
Is what I’m building
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