What You Thought Hops

Poetry is the language of imagination
 Poetry is a form of positive creation
 Difficult, isn't it the point? Ya missin it
 Rockin's kinda new to me cause my true love is poetry
 I don't know what you thought hops but chief I've got tall props see
 This be thee rebuttal version
 To mister academic who does not believe that my poems would
 could should have muscles and bodies like this one
 I want my poem to be brazen and long legged
 and squash mud under a hard yellow heals wicked gravity
 I wish to leave this lab of brains swishing in jars
 and write poems that shatter glass with undeniable bodies
 I want to be a word that wants to be a sweating brick
 so drink that through your pointed teeth and critique it
 I want to be the strophe that strokes the ear in salty heaves
 a spine that bends and works like the dance you shut the door to be
 Listen to me, with your hips
 Clutch this line in the fleshy grip of bold thighs
 Eat through your ears and drink through your pores
 and if you see me splashed across a page
 Know that a leaf is a tongue that you wear to make love
 to a voice not your own, eat this poem
 Floss with the barbed length of a simile
 and scrape your tongue across the living verses
 bristling skin my I is just my I I promise
 I believe in closure but not in hospital corners
 the way first principles are real but untraceable see
 God is meaning, means becoming, means I knock before I come in
 Means I wriggle through the riddle of the flesh to out sweat it
 Means I wear my impertinence upon my fluttering lip
 My refusal to bow out to some abstract curtain
 and exist backstage by the sandbags and pulleys
 Hell fucking no! I exist to be seen
 to see and be seen, to push my I to the thou
 Because the premise of my rhythm is the un-apologetic
 emphatic insistence of the declarative sentence
 That's right bad boy, I am I is I be, fuck you.
 I can speak about myself and rhyme in couplets if I want to
 I am I is I be I do I self I delf I solo I dolo is is is is I I I
 Am my mother's talk stories from beginning to end.
 Listen to this poem with your hips.
 Yes it's Denizen an exhalation of breath
 and these Typicaaal Cats will make the session start fresh
 Yes it's I grip tight the lemon scented mic device
 these Typicaaal Cats will make the session start right
 See I was born with two tongues but no green card
 my skin marked by the immigration narratives of my people drifting a-part
 Of the two worlds I reside in the high yellow phantasm, of an undiscovered future
 I am to breach the chasm between my mother's memory and my hazy prison I so knew
 Languages off the scraps of my hand-me-down clothes
 I grip with ten toes the type or types are putting fact in funk
 deliver colder than statistics, bubble hot like a Cali trunk
 I dwell in the fertile valley between ghosts and history
 subvert the dogma lefty-loosy righty-tighty every time I speak
 Conjunction junction what's ya function my assumption
 that the fearful face of my future would fall and then my punching is in question
 Ghosts grip my chest and I can't breathe
 panic brings my chinky eyes wide and then I can't read
 Roll and I tumble and I cry the whole night long
 roll and I tumble and I cry the whole night long
 But my creator calls the human out the thinnest of the vapors
 I tease the story out the blankness of the paper
 I can weave a family out the scarlet of a sin
 and write the world in which my seed will be at ease inside his own skin
 See Miss Liberty stagger with evictions falling out
 I tap with two tongues against the inside of my mouth
 Had a date with assimilation, but I stood her ass up
 and made love to the multi-color features brimming in my cup
 Because the end comes quick, ego says quit
 I say work is love let my body be a brick
 Because the end comes quick and ego says quit
 I say work is love let my body be a brick
 Yes it's Denizen an exhalation of breath
 and these Typicaaal Cats we make the session start fresh
 Yes it's I grip tight the lemon scented mic device
 Typicaaal Cats will make the session start right (see uh uh)