“My hungry heart holds our secret getaways / like the last snowflake of a winter day . . ” It is a Wednesday night. And I have a . . “girlfriend”. So why am I downstairs by the back bar of Eighteenth Street Lounge, seduced by sweat sheen and Shabba Ranks, engaging in synchronized waist-winding [...] ...
“(K)night falls on her; Lancelot to Guinivere / Light falls on her; glinting sphere to hemisphere / Water from her mind replenish tears endless years / We been traveling in pairs; Noah’s Ark, Senate hearings . . ” This poem was born as a series of texts which I sent to my ex-miss* one Halloween [...] ...
“I never knew a love, love, a love, a love like this . . ” In the year 2000, fellow Piscean Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. aka Common aka The Artist Formerly Known As Sense released the album Like Water For Chocolate, which would go on to be considered by many fans as one of his [...] ...
“Only you know what this song’s about . . ” ~ Alicia Keys They say that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them. I say that if two people become one person, then there are no secrets. Here, Philly-raised Atlanta-based rising star songstress Noel Scales and [...] ...
Hi. I’m . . Druid. She’s . . an angel. And you’re . . her mom. Does that make you . . God?? . . . (Painting courtesy of www.reshadapullenjireh.com.) ...
Charcot-Wilbrand Syndrome is the loss of the ability to dream. And beloved, if I were to lose you, I would surely lose my Dream come true. But beloved, were I indeed to lose you, then may I indeed also lose my ability to dream, that I may not be tortured by the nightmare that is [...] ...
#ThisIsThePart where I pledge my undying allegiance to the one called Amel Larrieux. Was it not she of Piscean presence, sagest of songwriting, and bottomless soul who hath started this cascade down the 20,000 leagues under the She? (See “I’ve Been Doing My Own Thing”, #ThisIsThePart, Part 4 of 31.) Did she not “Tell Me” [...] ...
{#ThisIsThePart, Part 12 of 31: “Fly Shorty” by Droopy the Broke Baller featuring Dwayne B the Crochet Kingpin} “Yo, Dwayne Beezy, Droopeezy got a secret . . ” / “Yo, you can release it; you know a bro could keep it / Break it down; what’s on your mind, wodi? . . ” / “Well, [...] ...