I am the stone that builder refused
I am the visual
The inspiration
That made lady sing the blues
I’m the spark that makes your idea bright
The same spark
That lights the dark
So that you can know your left from your right
I am the ballot in your box
The bullet in your gun
The inner glow that lets you know
To call your brother son
The story that just begun
The promise of what’s to come
And I’m ‘a remain a soldier till the war is won
We want war, world war, world wide warning
Walking with weapons we wacking walkietalkies wearing wardens
We with whatever, “what what” wilding wherever war went
Warlock, warpath, warfare, warriors with warrants
Wasting white whine, wearing Wu-wear with wallabes
Why would we waste words we weakening wigs wobbly
(U) Using unruly utilities, unappreciated
Unstoppable underdog unequally underrated
Usually unlocking unloading undertaking
Unconditional Uncle Toms unconstitutional understatement
Until undercovers unchain us underhand
Untouchable urban underground underboss, understand?
(T) Ten O’clock Tuesday, Tahoe traveling through traffic
Two thieving teenagers, tailgating, talking tragic
Tough talk turned to tragedy, two teflons thrown
They trying to take the TVs, the touch-tone telephone
Tense, thinking thoroughly, this Tuesday turned trife
Tried to total they truck, triggered the trey-deuce twice
They tracing Tahoe tracks, touching they toast tight
Took two triple takes, then turned towards the turnpike
Transmission thumping tough thoughts thinking temperament
Tires turning, time ticking, Timberlands trembling
Thugacated though, therefore tarnished they tissues
The tefs targeted they torsos, tore through they temples
(S) Scalping sacrificed Samson’s strength, soul slashing
Stainless steel slugs shattering skulls, skull smashing
Street soldier strive stricken since shy siblings
Sparking streetsweepers severing stomachs, side splitting
Silencers sniping suspects seeming suspicious
Shooting shotgun shells shell-shocking shivery snitches
Sending slug showers sharpening shanks, stabbing swine, snapping spines
Sticking stupid stool pigeons, snatching shines
Superior scientist structuring Shakespeare sentences
Study symbolic stars, smart solar system specialist
Supreme species sire since Satan’s second sin
Such savage secret society segregated separatist
(R) Represent, real regulators reflect
Raneesha resurrected, Ran ran recycled respect
Reminding relatives realism really resets
Reproduction reverses redrum, recollect
Reputation rebels randomly repeating Russian roulette
Rugers rapidly ricocheting revolvers rec
Real recognize real rugged renegades rep
Riff raff rara raving raggedy rappers repent
Raising rifles razor ripping renegades regulating
(M) Magnificent music making marvelous mahogany
Mashing miscellaneous mockery monotonies
Millionaire moves modestly monopolies
Masons made majorities minorities
Mental molecule measurer, Muslim mosque minister
Muhammad’s most masterful messenger
Militant mercenary merciless
Magazine millimeter marksman, murder motive murderous
Mailing moose money, Mussolini my main man
Mafia marijuana maniac man-made made man
(L) Listen, lavish life living long lasting
L’s lingering lunching lobster, laughing
Lawyers lie logically law library literate
Latex lapdance lover, lust ladies limitless
Long literature lyricist
Lifting levers launching lasers, lollygagging lames loosing ligaments
(K) Ki kissing klan killer, Ku Klux Klan killing
Kidnap kindergarden klan kids kidney kicking
Keen kilogram kilo kitchen kernel
(J) Jewel jotting journalist joyless jam jotting journal
Jets Jersey Jaguar jigedy-jealously
Junior juxmen jerks jump jux jealously
Jux jack jacket jeans jewelry
Jackass judicial judge jailing juveniles justifying jeopardy
Dreamer keep dreaming, dream for the future, no dream too small, some don’t dream at all
Sweet dreams sweet lover of mine see you in your dreams
Financial Aid Woes
I’m poor, I can’t pay, IDFWU Sally Mae
You took me for all I had before I had anything at all
Financial aid, aid me
I’m wounded (well my credit is)
The doorway to my future is blocked, unblock me allow me access to the essential building blocks in life
White supremacy
White man you’re not better than me my skin is a blessing you cannot use me with your supremacy you think you’re so supreme American horror story the next supreme you scary you devour the very beings you set out to become white man you’re not so bad said my third uncle through marriage he ain’t blood blood white man your hands are covered in it look at it. Look at your face why is it the same color?
UNITY (Queen latifah voice)
Uniting a people who hate each other
United States, united we stand
We stand on the backs of others who crush the spirits of those who are different
Divided we fall
We were divided way before we fell
We fell because there was nothing to hold us together
Is all lost? I mean, how could it really be?
Unity
Unite together
Unite in peace
Peace is the answer
Peace or deuces
Deuces to you
You’re untrustworthy
Deuces to the alternative facts
Two fingers to the fairytales
Here’s a wild idea: maybe we can be there for each other the way we use to be, you know, to really get shit done.
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
We want war, world war, world wide warning
