By Button Poetry
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McPherson, performing at the Black Arts Matter Poetry Slam.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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my fingers go don’t push me cause I’m
00:09
close to the itch um my knuckles go when
00:14
they pay the new jersey all the dope
00:16
boys go cray achoo i watch the dope boys
00:19
go craps if you’ve heard my wrists for
00:22
free of sing along
00:22
his palms are sweaty knees weak arms are
00:26
heavy there’s vomit on his sweater
00:27
already ok ok you’ve heard my wrists
00:31
nice nice nice all right my elbow goes
00:34
said little you can’t with me if you
00:37
want so this is red bottoms these this
00:41
blood and then of course Tupac watches
00:43
over the shoulder like Hail Mary like
00:45
what do we have here now do you wanna
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burn it uh I ain’t a killer but don’t
00:54
push me
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cuz the way I put some words together
00:57
I’ve been chewed up and spit out and
01:00
booed off stage when they see you and
01:02
don’t speak that means the sweetest joy
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is expensive these arms are heavy it’s
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kind of hard to be drug free when I’m
01:09
trying not to go crazy but I’m the
01:12
surface he looks calm like a lake he
01:14
wanted to swim with his paragraphs all
01:16
through your body honestly but the words
01:18
won’t come out he’s choking choking
01:20
choking I learned these old moves from
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Bloods close to post mortem I learned
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these old moves from all the broken
01:27
don’t boys pimps pushes the real
01:29
moneymakers they say Penitentiary’s is
01:31
back to pop rock teaches the racism and
01:33
say you better lose yourself and get a
01:34
shirt and tie and run with the creeps I
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wind up in jail or shot they say your
01:38
mind is I could juggle some talk to the
01:40
times but you can’t determine eyes a dog
01:43
said little rabbit you can’t dehumanize
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a god I don’t dance now I make
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opportunity out of rocks in the front
01:49
room roaches in the back guard in the
01:51
symphony God in the blood moves got in
01:54
the flush and the songs from the chance
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they can break bodies they can’t break
01:57
dance
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[Applause]
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