wellll it sure has been a while since I've blogged....
I am no longer in Los Angeles. I have moved to New Orleans and am 3 weeks into my freshman year at Tulane University. I am enjoying myself beyond what should be allowed as legal and often times isn't lol
Well I WANTED to come back with a BANG i.e. a video, buuuut since it's 1:11am here and I just got the urge to blog typed will have to suffice. Here is my poem about my personal feelings about coming to New Orleans. I LOVE CALI, but I gotta love me more first ya digg? Here it is:
Please forward my mail to New Orleans, Atlantic
I mean
New Atlantis, Louisiana
I mean
That graveyard we abandoned
Where survivors were left to scavenge for scraps in the aftermath of levee damage
But 3 years later we pull 700 billion out of our asses
I wanna learn government magic
How to turn street cars into surf boards
How to bury every dream in the muddy streets of the 9th ward
How to steal from people so poor they couldn't even afford to evacuate when they were warned about the storm
Tell me
Is is still bad to bite the hand that feeds me if that hand forces bullshit down my umbilical chord?
Children all over America were being born into snow globes of hope
While others were dying in the Super Dome
But that's not what they showed
I was told "THOSE PEOPLE" murdered and stole
The truth was my fellow Kings and Queens were trying to use their thrones as boats to float above the city they called home
And I learned that the hard way
Riding the metaphorical waves of a poet that drank that rain
There is nothing OK about putting a price on the lives of people caught in the mistakes of an underestimated hurricane
But I think I finally went sane at the front door of Tulane
I'll take the 504 over the 405 anyday
So I left LA the city for LA the state
Goodbye, Angels
Hello, Saints
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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