Romeo and Juliet

So I'm hearing secondhand my poems sound a bit too much like rapping
But if that was happening I'd be surpassing Briar Rabbit's
partner in civil disruptance, and frankly I'm a little disgusted
that anyone could spit on my cousins
I'm a star crossed lover of my families, two
branches of the same tree saggin' from the weight of their dumb-ass feuds
Capulents and Montagues, number all in my crew


My dad was Romeo, he penned sonnets for love
and stabbed a dude with a sword when he murdered his cuz [in cold blood]
He was a little reckless, see that in me when I'm tested
But I'm patient, I'm praying and cautiously making my move
Invested in refreshing the house of Montague
Already paid all my dues almost wore my father's shoes fore
I realized suicide would only reduce the lives of my crew		(only reduce/never improve?)
	(pros/cons of poetry)

X that thread, why ignore the other branch of the tree?
Juliet found love in rapping when she realized
that Capulent rhyme was
	... the perfect doorway to the morgue
	Too soon?
	Gotta have a sense of humor with death, especially when
	your metaphorical parents offed themselves 'fore
	your persona could be born z
	(*pros/cons of rap)
	(*deepen Juliet's character)

So that's how it happened, the ghosts a literary classics
spat out a writer out the womb before he even matured
and I'm here to make sure the moral of the story haunts you, absurd
to think that tragic tale is repeated like it was high school

If you're dissing rap you obviously haven't listened to enough
to know they even come without a beat or a chorus and my poems have none


And if a rapper calls poets sad little patsies
I'll team up with Watsky and show him the


My rapping is poetic, my poems are fucking lyrical
If I ever sing a song, you can tack on stand-up comic
to my list of accomplishments, it's even longer than my dick
But I ain't never kissed my blood, like haters biting their tongues
so if rapping and poetry are my family, just let me go
I'll marry a punk rock chick and broaden my flows.

Don't shoot the messenger and careful with the seal
when you open up this letter.

* set it up as a play? *

* chorus / quarrel *

* chick/broaden - broad/chicken *



(better MC names)






if the mic is broken so's the metronome


I don't have to be the best, just give me an apprenticeship


x	Not a poet, not a rapper, just listen to the pitter-patter
At 11 I heard my voice echoing offa cathedral vaults
Now 22 I'm reverbrating in these poetry halls
Come 33 I'll hear my own songs when I turn the radio on

if this a rap when the chorus and beat kick in?
if this is garbage how come you still listening?


Tear your arm off, turn your middle finger up
and flip your dead body off with it!



[Shoot the Moon]
Last time I played basketball,
An eight year old handed my ass to me
and she was a girl
[dribbled her brother's head on the concrete]
but honestly I don't even feel a bit bad