signs, symbols, symptoms, and systems
Evolving Dream
Give a Beat · "Evolving Dream" by Russell Wardlow A once hoped for, and seemingly…
I Am U
I am black, I am white, I am brown, I am yellow, I am mixed,…
This Sys-tem
This sys-tem is like a cyst this sys-tem is a stem of oppression and isms…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Dear Parole Board
Dear Parole Board I wasn’t supposed to be here Do you know the dark I…
Symbliminal Messaging
Removing symbols aren’t the solution but in a society of symbolism and their creeds idolization…
Riding the Emotional Hump
I’m inconsistent insufferable overbearing and insensitive at times I say I’m passionate but I may…
Rapped Tight Prose Verse
I’m tired of living this life I’m tired of living this life I had to…
Friendliest Foes
Agreement often times creates ignorance and blindness it’s in the face of opposition that we…
Our state- ran by brilliant billionaires
Uh we have the most billionaires per capita in the U.S. here in Nebraska. Pete…
Capitalism rites, write rights
This country was always capitalists or at least headed that direction there’s no heart in…
Unheralded Nebraska Corrections
Everyone flies over walks past or stops by this middle America Nebraska our crime lowered…
Drugged
Drugs or die do drugs or die doing drugs cuz I wanna die doing drugs…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Contempt Contentment
Right before I enter my room I look into it’s narrow window and it’s small,…
Compiled Compliance
You want me to be myself but more like you, more in the way that…
Fighting Odds
If the faculties I possess, which help me to identify my emotions and react with…
Peeping Through My Window Part 4
“Peeping through my Window pt 4” I’m a boy. From 2007, I left my group…
Peeping Through My Window Part 3
“Peeping thru my Window pt 3” I’m a boy. Relationships, where do I even start…
Peeping Through My Window Part 2
“Peeping through my Window pt 2” I’m a boy. We all gotta grow up sometime…
Peeping Through My Window Part 1
“Peeping through my Window Pt 1” I’m a boy. We have this patriarchal society that…
Looking Back-in
The saddest thing is making plans far down the road at a date where you’ll…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
Formatted Function
Function is a formed matter of perception function can’t deal with dysfunction nor can it…
You Don’t Know How I Feel
You don’t know how I feeel …inside you don’t know how I feel …inside you…
E=MC^2
Life is your economy fueled by energy, empathy and economics on this journey the car…
Societal Farmers
Take a look at who you process those innocent kids thrusted into statistics poverty and…
Changed the Same
Reva Siegal created a term called–preservation through transformation–wherein white privilege is maintained, while the rules…
Chained Change
Prison is a unique walk that is, if you’re looking to grow and mature because…
Black Pandemic
Promises “progress” poverty public policies politicians profiteering police prosecutor prison parole and presidents(dead or alive)
Vote: Biden/Trump
Voting either or is better than neither nor Because if we’re only spoken for Then…
So smart I’m Stupid
Too smart for my own good too smart to do no good but too smart…
Uneven Measure
I have a question why when our public servants make mistakes they are able to…
Better if I Say it
Gotta get used to talking about myself if I want the world to know me…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Psychos Therapy
Psychotherapists should look to set up in prisons if they really wanna make a difference…
Cultural Wardlow
I’m a cultural war I’m a culture at war I’m a casualty of war I’m…
Young R.U.S.S’ WayOfLife-style
Racism, injustices, inequalities and their perpetrators never rest. As we speak, Trump is trying to…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
P.O.W.E.R.
When it comes to matters of power, the human in us is first reluctant- That’s…
White Knights
The effects of colonialism in this country have not dissipated. The crippling clutches of capitalism…
Plucked Flowers
We’re all plucked flowers paying attention to the surface while the reality beneath is of…
Errday my birthday
I die so much daily living to reflect on the happening the next day surprised…
You’re smarter than this
“You know you better, you’re smarter than thisyou have so much potential, but you harbor…
Rewarded Punishers
Imprison me and it’s a political and capitalistic win-win Prepackaged, a voteless tax write off…
Misconstrued Nature
People will find a reason to separate and hate if not given enough reasons to…
White Vigilante
Born on my own land I am my own man I have my own plans…
Everyone is a Felon
Either in conscience or act. The only line of difference is my color. Every so…
Privates Exposed
Let’s expose our privates. All privatized industries should be leaned on so heavily with oversight,…
Upstanding
How can we rise up if there’s nothing to stand on? Because they stand tall.…
I is U
Putting someone’s personal pain in perspective is like a mirror once you see yourself now…
Cop Out
We’re not taught nor encouraged to trust legal figures they do more harm than help…
What have you done for me lately
So I’ve noticed more police campaigns and commercials advertising what they do for us now…
Take my Place
I’m not everything you want me to be but this is my lifethis is not…
Here-US
Nebraska doesn’t hear us or they just don’t care and no one outside of Nebraska,…
We, the many
Every able bodied man and woman should seek to create platforms from the positions of…
Blasé
Sky is blue everything black and white I am grey…or gray
More than an Object of your Subjection
We won’t shut up and dribbleWe won’t juke and jiveWe won’t stop kneelingWe won’t stop…
Cost to Change
Money!That is the barometer of changeThose who have it vs those whom don’tThose that have…
Paint Poems
I paint moments and put them in poetrycuz if I rapped it most would attack…
Pros’ Poems
Don’t walk away from medon’t build a fortressand forestour fortuneforcingour forfeitforgive me for myinformal forumsforages…
Real Paradise
Within our SPIRITS Flowing throughout our bodies Which we can express thru our hearts and…
Fight or Flight Fright Night
You fight or flight change I fight or flight for change Though my fright of…
Color’dBlind
Stop saying you don’t see my color You are NOT colorblind Nobody is Why would…
ProPros’d Thoughts
Wear in plain sight, though it’s deep as geneswake up, hate everything seenblood flows through…
Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard to remind black people That their lives matter So when it comes to…
Cultured, Not Colored
If I cut you open What color would you be? What color would you bleed?…
Blood
I pray..I stray..eyes glazed..crrrrryyyy babypupils, diiiiiiii-latedhe-look-de-hyyyyy-drated, she-look-de-hyyyyy-dratedblood peaking…I see,.. bloooood seeping open, blooood seeping o-penblood…
This could be the Beginning
This could be the beginning of something greatereverything else…save it for laterI am riding giveabeats…
So-ciety
Taste over affect, the irony of society, like coffee beans decaffeinatedwe’re too reactive, in need…
My Mom is Harriett Tubman
She created her own underground railroadalluding abusive persecutionsacrificing dark man for sonescaping the enslavement of…
This isn’t Over
This is a callfor more to be invited This isn’t justa moment of excitement This…
Faux pas
Rebelliousnonconformistanti-govspiritualnonreligiouspurge-aholic…catharsisecological egalitarian anarchistliberated mindindependent viewsunapologetically black unique and individualisticwillfully abrasiveblack sheepcivilized savageraw and uncuttruth hurtslies…
Ebony Overtime
Black women have it the baddeston averagethey bend backwardsworking 226 days addedto equal the averagewhite…
If Black Lives Matter
IFBLACK LIVES MATTERthen WHYafter flashing lightsdoes a BLACK LIFEFLATLINE AFTER? IFBLACK LIVES MATTERthen WHYYYYafter flashing…
Newfoundland
ashamedbecause I tried to be’white’at my best momentsthen by default’black’at my worstashamedbecause I aspiredto be…
occupied freedom
there has been casualtiesand fatalitiesbecause this occupied illusive realitywas founded and liberated upon sustained brutalitiesand…
sadomasochists
AmericaPeoplewhy does it take inflicting painto stop you from inflicting painwhy does it take inflicting…
the chemistry of change
chemistry has three descriptionsliquidsolidand gaschange is also a sciencebut in order for it to be…
less ain’t more
we need less white antics and more white allies less white advantage and more black…
duty bound
preserve Lifereserve Propertyrestore Orderbut which are most valued
paradox
dear world, I’ve changed I’m a black man leaving prison soon to a virus pandemic…
social seesaw
when white people are involvedpains absolvewhen black people are involvedpains evolvewhen white people are involvedproblems…
Juneteenth
Holidays get added and taken away all the time. We’re rich in random and temporary traditions…
loss can’t be found
life found me on the edge where gravity had tried to push methe fingers of…
my proactiv method
What are we trying to do right? If we are activists, then what are we…
new school
prisons are the new school’s, new schoolsnot education like they intended of coursekind of reward…
masteredmind
I have been the travesty of my circumstancethe manifestation of my historythe instance of my…
darker presence
it’s quieterthroats clearenergy shiftsair dry and staticwinds whisperuncomfortable movementsmuscles tensebreath heldit smells of fearwhat?all I…
destined to fail
what does hope mean, when choices are more limited than your options? my friend sees…
new social no-no’s
I walk into the cafeteria hereand although we’re all supposed to have our masks onwe…
COVID’s internal impact
I’ve observed that here in prison, we’re more restlesswe feel more neglected and forgottennow that…
covid woes
sadness reigning on a raining daybut you say you’re ‘A OK’resilience steals the pain awayconcealing…
that power word
power…what is too much powerwhen challenging establishments and normswhen uprooting inequalities and integrating balancewhat or…
no sweat
life may be difficult for me I guessbut there’s a fearlessness to the pursuit of…
disorder
we crave orderyet fear when nature seeks itfire destroysmaking way for the newpeople destroyjust for…
deserter
I don’t want to go to war no moreI don’t want to go to war…
but i see it all
they say racism is deadwhite privilege is a jokeget a job is the punch lineprejudice…