my NY Times debut .

just in case anyone missed the article <3
(this was pre urbanword09 fyi)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/nyregion/03slam.html?_r=1 .

Call me weird ...

if you must.
but Hiroshima and Nagasaki shadows

have always been really interesting to me,

so i was google imaging pictures of them .

and i found these two that were really cool to me

in a weird creepy way .

& i stumbled across this poem about 2 years ago,

and wouldnt give up until i found it again.

At the Makeshift Aid Station

You girls—

weeping even though there is no place

for your tears to come from;

crying out even though you have no lips to shape the words;

struggling even though you have no skin

on your fingers to grasp anything with—

you girls.

Your limbs twitch, oozing blood and greasy sweat and lymph;

your eyes, puffed to slits, glitter whitely;

only the elastic bands of your panties hold in

your swollen bellies;

you are wholly beyond shame even though your private parts

are exposed:

who could think

that a little while ago

you all were pretty schoolgirls?

Emerging from the flames flickering gloomily

in burned-out Hiroshima

no longer yourselves,

you rushed out, crawled out one after the other,

struggled along to this grassy spot,

in agony laid your heads, bald but for a few wisps of hair.

on the ground.

Why must you suffer like this?

Why must...

--Toge Sankichi

TATTOOS GALORE !

Tattoo's were what made the summer what it was .

everyone was tatted up by August .

and i loved the flow of pictures,

and the ANNOYING PEOPLE asking me to apply A&D ointment .

but these are a few of my faves . <3

Me:

JuJu:

imani:

OtherHalv:

Millz :

Shay:

Happy Birthday Beautiful Woman .

Today is Ms.Aja-Monet's birthday.
i thought that maybe a simple wall post on facebook would suffice,
but when i sat and thought about you,
and how much you mean to me i realized that wouldn't be enough.
So I'm dedicating this blog entry to you.
Ms. AJA-MONET the woman who made this summer one to remember,
with all your odd antics , beautiful smiles and not so beautiful tears. lol.
i wish you the best at life, in all your endeavors.
i hope that this birthday is one you will forever remember.
Aja i love you!
your more than a coach, more than a poet, your a friend even more a family member.
someone that i could never replace (not that i plan to try).
have a safe way to Chitown see you there soon.
but most importantly . . .
HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY .
iloveyou. <3

"Not as small as we look"

**one of my fave poems from BNV **

Boys will be Boys ;)

My Babies <3

D.Jay has gotten HUGE !!!!

but hes still just as annoying, but i love him nonetheless <3

EM.J my BABY/HUN/LITTLE LOSER !!

i love my cat ohdee, ima miss him so much when i leave *tear*