410 Ludlow Avenue, Apt #45
Cincinnati OH 45220
Phone: (513) 312-5204
Jun 2010
University of Cincinnati, English Literature
Graduate
Minored in Digital Design
University of Westminster, Graphic Design
Fall '00 - Jun '01
Attended the University of Westminster for the purposes
of studying Foreign Culture through Firsthand Experience
and also focused on Internet Studies as well as Creative
Writing and Event Planning
Jun 1999
North College Hill High School, College Preparatory
Graduate with High Honors
Senior Superlative was Most Outgoing of Class of '99
1999
Scholarship given to outstanding High School Students
1999
I was chosen to be an Exchange Student with this program
that allowed me to visit Dachau, Nuremberg, and Munich I also
visited the Congressional Bundestag in the Governing District
of Germany
2005
I was chosen to give the Valentine's Day Feature Poetry
Performance at the Catskeller at the University of Cincinnati
2011
I was awarded a $300 artists grant for the purpose of promoting my
online work through a Google AdWords' Campaign
2013
Hakiym Sha'ir made the decision to make me a Season One feature artist for his next open mic series. He had me feature at show #3 which was my first time being asked to do a feature spot in my career as a Stand-Up Poet.
Internet Literacy
Media Bridges in Cincinnati, OH
Webmaster and Researcher 2011
Keith Gilbert
May 2006 to Jul 2006
6 Month Studies Program in Professional Web Design
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
Starfire Council
Lecturer, Cincinnati, OH, May 2012
Spoke on the topic of Poetry for a Group of what Appeared to be highly developmentally disabled children. Inspired them to put on a pageant for the purposes of entertaining themselves and spoke about the need for poetry literacy as a means of expressing oneself to one's fullest self.
Visionaries and Voices
Volunteer
Cleaned roughly 200 heavily paint stained brushes that were unusable and brought them up to the point of being useful again.
English: Native Language
German: Novice Reader, Writer, and Listener
Programming: HTML5, CSS3, Processing
Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Blender, Cinema 4D, Word
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows, Ubuntu
I am just sitting here today. I just got a kitten. I am between writing projects as I am going to be working to publish my first novel ... The Gospel of the Return of Christ. I am just going to write about my life for a spell. I am so scared ... not for myself but for my society and my culture and my country. There is so much happening and I personally believe that too much has happened. We are watching all kinds of generational power grabs as people take on the roles of telling contingents of people what to do. It is just amazing.
I believe in balance though but my government ... here is the thing about my government ... I grew up and nothing bad happened to me because of them BUT maybe that was because I did not know anything about them. Do they always do business they way they are lately? Is that just what government is? A never ending conversation filled with arguments and intrigue. Is government ultimately a game to the people that are involved in government and they just all play to win for themselves and their teams and their representatives.
We live in strange times considering that an entirely NEW culture is arising in a post internet world and there are some amazing people doing amazing things like MGK and Mac Miller and honestly the world seems to be at war. Not a bullet bullet kill kill war but a war over pride and who deserves to feel pride and who deserves to fight to feel pride. Apparently national politics are involved in people feeling good about themselves as though you can legislate pride. That the right person in power would ultimately lead to people feeling better about themselves.
People are so void of self image that they need to see people that look like them in powerful positions just to feel better about themselves. With the television seeking to build the thoughts of millions of people. Have you ever watched television lately? I believe that television is amazing in its utter mind washing techniques. We are in a world filled with absolute brain washing and its almost as if people are trying to vote for their favorite super heroes ... it just does not make any sense any more.
I do not honestly know if it ever did. I just never read the newspapers when I was a child but apparently it makes sense to someone. I just do not understand these people that NEED to travel to washington DC to take part in congressional politics, why do they not just spend part of their time in washington and ultimately take part in their local politics. Every major politician should be at home working to create an atmosphere of health in their home town communities. You just cannot fathom what kind of trouble our cities are in when people , good people , are just too confused to even do business.
Do you know how few people have no concept of how to do any kind of business even small business? I am talking the kind of business where you pay someone from your own stockpile of cash and hand it to them personally. You do not know about this type of ignorance. Just the utter lack of ability to take care of oneself is at issue here. I am on public assistance currently and even I get by with a wholesome life because I use the internet like it is important and I am always searching for my next big break.
So many people look at me and too me as though I have a problem when in reality I am part of the solution in that YES my life has been unbelievably difficult BUT i keep smiling and i keep dancing and I keep moving on knowing that life has seasons and that winter is indeed a season. I wish I could see more humanity in my government officials but apparently that is just never going to happen because they are far too old and from a culture that I was never a part of for me to understand them so in the mean time we must just work to take care of ourselves and wait for government to represent us which can only happen when our peers start taking office when that day ultimately comes.
That is twice now you almost died somewhere OTHER than cleveland ... when you make promises to your city publically the Gods of that city DO IN FACT PLEASE DO NOT QUESTION THIS DO IN FACT HAVE THE POWER TO PUNISH YOU FOR RENIGGING ON YOUR PROMISE ... you are riding high RIGHT NOW and it would be best if you started keeping your promise to Cleveland. I am personally married to Cincinnati and the cool thing that I do that keeps me out of mofo trouble is that I stay the fuck in Cincinnati where the fuck I belong. If you are going to rep your city 10x hotter than I rep Cincinnati you have to spend time with your city ... understand that Karma is EXTREMELY REAL and the tornado you ran into, and the bus were actual and very real brushes with death meant to getting you thinking about your life , if you would like to lead a HAPPY life you will move back to cleveland. You made your point Machine Gun Kelly so now go start working on keeping your promise to the city where you PUBLICALLY STATED ... BEST BELIEVE I WILL DIE RIGHT HERE ... what if history is watching you MGK and what if history is coming back in time to try and prompt you from making the mistake you made last time that led to your demise and ultimate tarnishing of your historical name and nature by simply NOT keeping your PUBLIC PROMISE TO YOUR CITY ... how long must you tour before you have toured enough, how long must you avoid your responsibilities in your OWN HOMETOWN before you realize you 1. May have spoken too soon before you could keep such promises BUT are held to them as a father and a man none the less. 2. Have you thought of going to college in Cleveland and taking your fame and beginning a career in Media Relations or some other field IN CLEVELAND that would allow you to manage your own career more effectively BY YOURSELF at a MUCH LOWER PRICE POINT than what you experience now OUTSOURCING such service work. YOU ARE TOO TALENTED TO PLAY THE BAD BOY FOR THIS LONG and PUFF does not care about your promise to Cleveland and in fact he is trying to break you and your promise so that NYC Gangsta Rap can reign supreme ... you are being set up to fail and it is time you realized that ... to the benefit of yor life and the success of your Cleveland Family. 3. Start an open mic and tour LESS and more locally so that you can remain close to your roots ... there is no reason to go galavanting around the United States for years when you in fact Promised Cleveland that that is where you would DIE ... YOU said that ... not your boys ... not your fans ... YOU DID ... Now that A MOFO TORNADO ALMOST KILLED YOU AND A MOFO BUS MAYBE IT IS TIME TO MOFO WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT EVEN MOFO NATURE IS TRYING TO KEEP YOU TO KEEP YOUR WORD AND if you do not believe than then believe this ... your fans all over the world WOULD at this point TRAVEL TO SEE YOU as you could take your SIGNING BONUS and start a performance theatre where you could be the GM and essentially KEEP YOUR LIFESTYLE AS IS but KEEP IT MUCH MORE LOCAL AND HOME GROWN ! AND on top of that your natural abilities as an MC are much more suited to your ability to be in COMPLETE CONTROL of your environment ... you function MUCH BETTER as an artist when you are in complete control of your environment WHICH you were in charge of IN CLEVELAND ... which is why your best work was done by YOUR TEAM in YOUR CITY and now you brought in FOREIGNERS to your camp and your work has suffered as such because they do not have the same vision you have. YOU BELONG IN CLEVELAND NOW PLEASE FOR THE LIFE OF YOUR CAREER LIVE UP TO A PROMISE YOU MADE AND KEEP ME AN ARDENT FAN OF YOURS AND ARDENT FAN OF YOURS AND OSTENSIBLY SAVE YOUR LIFE AND YOUR LIFE"s work ... MICHAELANGELO STAYED THE FUCK IN ONE PLACE TO DO HIS WORK ... and if you are claiming MICHAELANGELO STATUS THEN DO SOME MOFO MICHAELANGELO SHIT AND PAINT A SISTINE CHAPEL OF FLOW IN MOFO CLEVELAND AND CONTINUE TO BOMB ON THiS INDUSTR FROM A SAFE LOCATION SEW THAT YOU CAN BE MORE OF OURSELF AND SO THAT YOU CAN GO DEEPER INTO YOURSELF ... bring people to you in cleveland instead of going elsewhere ... again you have nothing to prove anymore ... there ... you are in fact the hottest but that does not mean NATURE itself cannot end your career for mismanagement of your eternal stream of energy ... there.
Are you familiar with the work of Bill Hicks? Brian Regan? Joe Rogan? Richard Pryor? Charlie Chaplin? Lenny Bruce? It is good to see you sticking up for your gender in such a dramatic fashion but please ... did women invent stand-up or like so many things are they plotting a take over of yet again another male social invention that quite frankly men created to pay bills with and now that women are finally hip to the game they are going to try and rewrite history and pretend for as long as the ruse lasts that men have ostensibly did nothing, women did everything, yay women ... boo men ... yadda yadda yadda yadda and all that jazz ... its nice to see a woman taking a stand for her culture once and while but please enjoy your soap box while it lasts because ostensibly it was a man that built your soap box to begin with that you currently stand on ... I am not saying women are not Goddesses of invention in their own right ... I am just saying the genetics of invention lie in men for the most part and this active cultural demasculinazation of men for the most part is cute but ultimately not worth pursuing ... may your jokes gain in humor far into the years ahead just remember it was probably a man that even invented those typographical symbols that you are even using on that computer that you are using connected to that electricity that you are using connected to the building you are working in and in all fairness be fair to the men that made your life as easy as it is today and please refrain from rewriting history in plain view and creating memes that ultimately bring people like me to the forefront who do not wish to see the story of history tainted with this obvious pro-feminist propoganda ... here is a joke ... if you take a group of 100 women is it mathematically even possible for them to collectively choose a leader among them ... i submit not ... I am open to more creative answers than quite simply women cannot choose a leader amongst themselves which is quite simply man's greatest power that you simply cannot create within your pheminist ideologies ... try writing a joke about a female leader and see if you can withstand the crushing forces to your feminist political strata ... lol.
You ever feel like defeating masculinism is like playing whack a mole at the carnival?
The conversation surrounding Israel is what I have always thought lended itself to perpetual war. I have never heard an unwarring conversation regarding Israel. I firmly believe that for Israel to receive Change at the very least a 3rd Party Judicial and Legislative body needs to step in and neutrally dissipate the situation and negotiate on behalf of all sides fairly in a public forum. The conversation regarding Israel is too tainted on all sides for the forces that convene in Israel to handle their dispute decidedly. For Israel to climb to peace quite literally they need to bring in a 3rd party and possibly a 4th AND 5th Party to legislate on behalf of all bodies involved. The Israel situation in my mind cannot be solved by Israeli participants themselves. Without decisive UN intervention the situation will never cease and desist from perpetuating itself. Quite honestly from what I know about Israel is that emotion and blood feuds run faaaaaaaaaaaar too deep for anyone connected with Israel to define how the Israeli situation should be handled. You would need to bring in African negotiators or quite possibly Japanese or Brazilian negotiators OR quite even some Antarctic Scientists or any one else that through genealogical studies can be proved to IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM NOT BE CONNECTED TO ISRAEL to be able to solve the Israeli problem. You cannot have an opinion on Israel and help solve the Israeli problem, and I firmly believe that since Israel is a planetary problem that outside negotiators from other distinct countries proven to be as far genealogically EVEN to the point of conducting DNA tests would bring you to a point where you can begin solving the Israeli crisis, only a collective neutral non combative non aggressive Body involving Executive, Judicial, and Legislative, AND 4th Estate Journalism occupants brought in from foreign nations can solve the Israeli problem, in other words Israeli problems are beyond the scope of Israel to solve and as such a foreign body politic needs to be brought in to neutralize the situation at the leisure of the earthen body politic at large. I believe that Earth need to want peace in Israel to the extent that Earth is capable and prepared to deal with Israel or quite frankly Israel will never be solved without a asexual politic body brought in tested down to the DNA level for fairness and equality and neutrality when dealing with the situation facing Israel. To be frank it is possible but are people willing to do what is possible to bring about this possibility or are modern day politicians too interested in the status quo to ever realize the type of change necessary to bring about the type of solution necessary to bring about that which has been spoken about and needed and deemed necessary for decades. It is possible but can anyone imagine deep enough to bring about a solution deemed equitable to all parties ... frankly I think the only man that could bring about this type of politic would involve Star Fleet and since they are a fictional body I doubt Gene Rodenburry could ever write a deep enough screen play to solve this planetary crisis. Namaste.
Because you are a lying sack of corporate shit that knows good and damn well you are employing corporate double talk when you internally and externally know god damned well you censor god damned near everything I post to Ask Reddit ... you are a sham you know it and I know it and its time you either lived up to your promise and ease off of moderation or your intellectual property will whittle down to useless white noise, your property value will inherently drop, you will have succeededing in using your Corporate Conde Nast power to willfully defeat the original intentions of Reddit as all modern corporate powers do and quite honestly I am deleting this account because you flat out do not care about public discourse in the nature of public discourse and you are trying to add cach'e to your brand by owning Reddit when in fact you are just adding corporate malaise to what was once the greatest place on the internet and like all things corporate your ruin whatever you touch EXCEPT for Coca-Cola. Thank you for a good run, your overarching need to dispense with lies and censorship abuse has ended my term with your property and from this I hope you learn a valuable lesson about the inherent problem in your overarching corporate culture BUT because you lack the ability to think for yourselves as individuals and always place group think above individual interests, in time you will lose out on your investment which was probably your goal the entire time as the success of Reddit as a satellite that was outside your control led you to purchase Reddit so that your current grouping of properties regained their ultimate value to you where you truly treat the Reddit Alien as though it requires to go to boarding school for discipline problems and you fail to see the value in the natural cultural exchanges that were occurring BEFORE your corporate and cultural intervention. I will be shortly canceling my Wired.com subscription of ten years and will be working to promote this framing of corporate history actively from henceforth. Thank you for reading this and yes this how I truly feel. Pepsi.
I have lived in Cincinnati, OH almost my entire life. I was amazed when Google Glass came out and thought to myself WOW! IF I WORE THAT I WOULD BE OSTRACIZED IN MY OWN CITY! which was a completely different reaction to discovering the Memoto Digital Camera. Upon discovering the Memoto digital camera I found something that struck a balance between being an extremely high tech always on data accumulation device and being culturally acceptable in my hometown.
I might be in a very small percentage of the people in my city that knows that Memoto exists. I know for certain that few people even know that Google Glass exists. What strikes me about Google Glass is that it is quite possibly too far into the future for my hometown that is still in a lot of ways struggling with the internet. My city is great for baseball and great for football and great for going out drinking but our tech sector is lacking. We are not the most futuristic city in the United States and we are not trying to be.
If I were to wear a pair of Google Glass's into Junior's Tavern in North College Hill I would be met with derision and speculation as opposed to curiosity and interest. I just know this. I cannot wear a pair of Google Glass's in my hometown because the public comfort level with that technology is too small.
Memoto's Small Camera however is a much better fit for my city. I could wear Memoto roughly anywhere I went and if anyone asked what it is I could just simply state its a special pin , I could put a distinguishing sticker on the front of it that maybe has the Red's Logo on it and people would just think I was quirky.
I see value in the Memoto photography device in a way that I do not see in the Google Glass. For the majority of the people in the city's of earth that are not at the forefront of technology Memoto is what I would consider a better cultural fit than what you would find with Google Glass. I personally would not care if you caught me on your Google Glass but I know the majority of the people in my community would. You run into cultural problems with advancements as great and as visually pronounced as the Google Glass in Cincinnati, OH but Memoto's Small unobtrusive camera flys so far under the radar that I personally would feel comfortable wearing it.
I notice that the Memoto camera is slated to take roughly 2 photos a minute. I would like to point out that this device could double as a defense mechanism because if you were in a rough area of town and you were wearing the Memoto device someone could try and rob you and you could conceivably take their photograph without them knowing it and thereby capture a criminal with Memoto. I do not believe the same would be true for Google Glass's.
You can be tracking a lot of information with Memoto and for a lot of cities I think Memoto is more culturally appropriate than the full on most forward thinking future that we are presented with with Google Glass. When it comes to moving into the future it makes sense to begin moving into the future slowly because if there is a tremendous amount of contrast between what you think is culturally relevant and what your surrounding community thinks is culturally relevant then you are going to have some problems as accepting new tech is a big deal for a lot of people.
I am always interested in forward thinking but I am no where near in the majority of thinkers in my hometown. I am an obscure person that has obscure tastes and I have to learn to be comfortable with that. Memoto offers me a way to get close to Google Glass at a cheaper price that is more culturally relevant and more culturally acceptable than what I would find with Google Glass. I will not get beat over the head for wearing Memoto the same way I would for wearing Google Glass. I would not make people uncomfortable with Memoto the same way I would with Google Glass. I love Memoto and I would love to be a local Distributor of Memoto Technology in a City that may take yeaaaaaaars to find out about this technology eventually. I believe I could make sales on behalf of Memoto here in Cincinnati in a way that I could never do with Google Glass.
I vote for Memoto as the next piece of tech I would love to use as opposed to the more highly futuristic Google Glass. Kudos to Memoto for being more practical in their thinking and solving the always on data capturing problem in what amounts to a more elegant solution for this present time period than what Google created.
I can sell Memoto I cannot sell Google Glass.
Bottom Line.
I would like to draw attention to a video of Giselle Grayson's that I have recently placed on http://www.nicholaslawson.com in a space that is at the top of my work list just above my career writing. I have included my finest novel in a link and I have included my newest novel endeavor on the same page. I know Giselle loves writing and I have ghost written before and if she enjoys my writing portfolio I can ostensibly write her at least one song that she could decide to either work with or not work with. I soley work at pro bono rates and would just love to know if on her latest stop in Cincinnati, OH she would be interested having a song written for her by Cincinnati's Poet. She has been very inspirational to me and seeing as how we even know some of the same people I would love nothing more than to write her at least 16 bars that she could then use with the melodies of her choice. She may be interested to know about my writing as I am Cincinnati's Hottest Poet and the proof is at http://www.nicholaslawson.com ... the line that I would like to dedicate to Giselle is as follows ... "I could make your breakfast and you could make me perfect." I had her in mind when I wrote that.
She is a constant source of inspiration and I look forward to her forthcoing appearances on tour as her generations voice, and it should be noted that her generation had to fight a fight that involved the generation ahead of hers NOT allowing for new artists to voice themselves. We are dealing with artists staying in the spotlight for faaaaaaaaaaaaaar too long and Giselle should not have to deal with the problems that she is dealing with. She is ready for the national spotlight and has put in amazing work to the extent that people are already dancing to her music while holding up signs for their work. She is experiencing the signs of national stardom and it is time she be given the national spotlight.
It is completely ridiculous that her generation not have access to her generation's song. Please use this letter from a fellow artist as a letter of reference when doing business on her behalf. It is time for Giselle to take the national stage.
With Sincerity,
Nicholas Lawson
In the confines of the mind we take the time to unwind the diatribes that actualize miracles inside of spotless spines. We enthrall the ethereal gathering of concubines that make up for lost time when you work all through the rhymes of existence. I missed this so I kissed a woman and fell in love. Turns out love turned on me and brought me through the desert of enlightenment where boys become men and we all start over our lives again. I remeber the emails I used to send to Zoe and the conversations we had on the phone. I remember England so well. I can finall fathom eternity and its looks bright to me. I miss Los Angeles and the times I spent looking for DeLorians. I miss smoking grass in Times Square and freestyling with friends to make time go by. I could be that guy that makes you want to cry those happy tears because our generation is here and we are inheriting everything. Its only a matter of time before the world reminds us that yes this now belongs to us. It is now ours to take care of and you may never understand the depths of this ceremony but that does not mean you cannot appreciate it. When two cities merge interests and build business for the reasons we all have to be careful to play with. I could be your lover and you could be my brother and we could make moonshine on balconies awaiting the temptations of a thousand sacred moments but I want to have children and be a father so I find the time to uwnind my mind along side a feminine spine. I could kiss you for hours as we leave our clothing on. Lips touching like armies in battle and and the thrust of the winter snow makes the world glow. I could write for you and we could put on a show. We could make YouTube Videos for all time and watch time take its time on our lives. I believe that the world is shifting and make no mistake you are gifted. I could be a liason to a world you have never seen. A Communist Country with a VERY VERY VERY RED C that gets parted like the waves of oceans we have never been before. I am studying the art of whores so that I can understand their ways. I have a need to touch your body that is hard to define but I keep my hands in my pockets because I learned my lesson last time. You could be my wife and I could be your husband and we could make moonshine on balconies forever and then lock the door so that the mermaids would not enter. I am sweating as I am writing this because I missed this moment to impress a new crowd with my new sound. I am the European Ethics wrapped up in Africa's blankets and I remember studying Feng Shui and Tai Chi while sipping on Chamomile Tea. I am just trying to understand why I ever chose to believe in time when my youth was begging me to live in the moment. I own this and you own me. Together we can make a deal that will make our entire generation free. It is the passage of time in the unwinding lines of literature that mean more to me than letters ever could. I do not need your alphabet no you need mine. I could spin Astro's Bag into a big surprise and make kindergarten kids learn their alphabets backwards for a generation of english speakers that speak the same language with a different phonics system as original thought is desperately needed and I would love to debate with a nine year old about the arrangement of letters trying to tell them that back in my day A came before Z and he would tell me that I am wrong and what could I say to facts like these. Its all a message in the breeze if you listen. You might glisten and find trapeze artists flailing in the tantrums of life in the circus that we call the entertainment industry. You might see me sometime or i might see you. Send me a bottle of Gin and we can begin our dance into the darkness my friend. Its time to start entertaining these people again. ::: 5:04 to 5:14 Eastern Standard Time ::: Ten Minute Free Writing Challenge Accepted.
I speak with my fingers on an alphabet
Im the only poet in the game that can win a bet
32 years strong not over yet
What else you want to see me do
Im a motherfucking graduate
With a univeristy behind my rep
11 years studying now bout time to collect my check
Just have to grab this mic and build my set
Build my gang and take this step
My alma matta saved me from death
Im a motherfucking college kid
Yall dont know shit about college kid
I come from a college town
Where most folks is college bound
And we be rocking that college sound
If you looking for work we can split this bread
Just give me a second to catch my breath
Oh my god what just happened to me
I guess this is what it sounds like
When you are finally free
When you finally decree
When you finally believe
That at any moment in your life
You can decide to just be
And find peace in the city of the big red machine
Where our business is clean
And we move slow because we peepin the scene
Ya gotta understand what I mean
When I say I am living in the city of Queens
Where its time we came out supreme
With a resoulution to make cream
And you wouldnt believe how much I believe
In the future of we becasue you dont know what I see
In the only city that ever meant anything to my chi
I wasnt raised on the streets so I perfectly perceive
What a city can be because I trained for this moment
And I know I can own it and show you how to transcend
And bring back the glory days of this city my friend
Funny thing about a city is that a city never ends
We just grow forever and take over the world
Oh my god what just happened to me
I guess this is what it sounds like
When you are finally free
When you finally decree
When you finally believe
That at any moment in your life
You can decide to just be
And this shit fucking actually happend to me
I been through shit you wouldnt believe
But no one ever defeated my belief
That I would get my degree
Yeah I come from UC
Where we bearcat proud
And if you an alumni let me hear you get bearcat loud
Becasue our city is now
We was lost but now we is finally found
Because you were so kind to me
I tried to walk away but you invited me back to speak
So I had to give it my all
And show you how this poet can ball
Because my poetry's tall
And I know the power of a city that sleeps
And maybe this is our week
To wake up and be known
As more powerful than Dow Jones
Becasue all I need is to make you proud
Becasue you taught me how
When you gave me inspiration to study
You gave me the chance to write
Now all I have to say is
Cincinnati Ignite.
Lace up Kells.
See you at the Next Reds Indians game.
Yo my keys got lost in the sauce of existence
And we in this for the distance to finish texts
That might be next on the list of bests my friend
A generation experiencing utopia with a fat ass portfolio
of accomplishments comprised of moments in life
where someone smiled and somelost frowned
and we got down like a party on the underground
where no one made a sound except for the click clack
of the keys finger typing until our generation became free
and the moments we needed just kept happening
pitter pattering through raindrops in galoshes
while it was my job to wash the dishes for fishes
that were searching for lakes and you can make a difference
if you learn to subtract the fiction from the facts
and i am just asking
what kind of facts are these
where old men tell children
to shoot bullets at enemies
because there is war in money
same as their is money in war
and i am just killing myself
to find my next metaphor
Yo i found the lock that my key needed to become free
I was such a slave to the game like you wouldnt believe
I could try and describe it but my thoughts constantly confound me
So lets try and reduce the crime rate as we follow the leader
I am lost inside of poetry and am not even trying to become found
As I walk with my two good feet over the top of the ground
The top of the earth is all i need to see its just enough for me to just breathe
I am content like a kangaroo hopping through the desert
With an inspired moment in my language
That becomes my slanguage that is all mine
You could remember me or you could spend time with me
Either way I am just interested in spending time with friends
And I know I am a weirdo its just the way I am
The way I have to be to make it through my life
So when you see me skipping down the street
Happy as can be just remember the kind of life i lead
and i am just asking
what kind of facts are these
where old men tell children
to shoot bullets at enemies
because there is war in money
same as their is money in war
and i am just killing myself
to find my next metaphor
that is my infinite energy that comes out of me
just so long as we agree that energy is energy
and i have some to spare so all my shows are free
just let me breathe and we can believe
in the words our generation needs to perceive
as the school lets us play a couple times a day
but i want to play forever and maybe you do too
so just ask yourself when are these adults going to
come up with something useful to do
that does not involve making money for loveless men
that never understand the value of art in their communities my friend
so get to writing and get to painting
and get to taking those shots with those cameras
that are here to remind us that the fun never has to stop
and the rhymes are so fine you wouldnt believe
and I love the poetry that flows through me in this city of Cincinnati
I am the wedding dress for the bride of christ
A trophy that is looking for a trophy
So that we can be happy and let the world see
What a happy marriage can be
Together we play no games
We just create children that bare our name
Wedding bands at the open mic
She got that body type that is just so right
I got that height that is oh so nice
She got that smile that is oh so bright
I could be your husband until the end of time
You could be my wife until time rewinds
We could be happy in a life destined for divinity
The only time I worry is when you are not next to me
We can be anything we want to be in life
So what happens when a man decides to be a Christ
I could be your man and
You could be my woman and
Together we could start a family
That bares our Chosen name
I will change mine
If you will change yours
And we can transform
both of our worlds
I can feel your presence on this planet
When I wake up in the morning
Its not a small thing for me to
End up next to you naked
I could be your man and you could be my woman
And we could have some children
That we raise to be design students
I could teach them lessons and you could too
Its just too bad that I have no clue about who you could be boo
So that is why I am writing this invitation from my soul to yours
You could be the woman that becomes my wife
I could be the man that gives you eternal life
We could make youtube videos until the end of time
Then on our 10 year anniversary we could hit rewind
And watch all the youtube videos we made in that time
I am not afraid of you and I hope you are not afraid of me because
I could be your man and
You could be my woman and
Together we could start a family
That bares our Chosen name
I will change mine
If you will change yours
And together we can transform
both of our worlds
Dating was so simple when we were children
Now adult life has found us in the moment
I hope we can own each other
As we walk down life's corridor
A long time ago we gave up the art of war
As we were destined for the peace in our lives
I could make you breakfast
And you could make me perfect
And we could be that couple that
Laughs at all of the jokes in life
Because I am looking for you
I hope you are looking for me too
We know we are not meant to be alone forever
But life has a way of putting the perfect couples together
I have no idea where to find you I just know you are near
So I am writing this rhyme to try and make it clear
That even though we have never met or even if we have
I love you dear.
