Saturday, October 20, 2018

Lyrics: Another Standard Braggadocio


Au, my raps are nothin’ but gold, never grow old, I’m so bold and stone cold, I’m noble, Simone knows I’m glo-bal, but no bull, foes choke on the mojo of this flow as I grow mold on fomo and go toe ‘ to toe with mofos whose low blows are so toast they mope home in boatfulls, boastfuls and moguls all hopeful to postpone my coro-nation, but I’m not patient, I’m the seven sins, accost a mosque and turn the imam Rastafarian, “mom, I musta lost a cardigan cuz it’s cold up in --”, oh wait, that's great, it's just my bars again, my heart must be a bargain bin cuz it’s got hidden treasures and bobby pins, I been all up in this life like it’s a dollar bill and I’m George Washington, walk a mile down the Nile in a pile of stylin’ moccasins, sky high in single file like angels posturin’ for my right to go thrive, why die when my pipes are still ripe? I’ll survive to recite the last digit of pi and still find enough time to refine Kant’s transcendental aesthetic, oriental ascetic flaunting his continental magnetic elemental kinetic monumental pyretic energy, I’m an experimental phonetic fundamental poetic entity, so mental schizophrenics are into me, it’s theoretically right to say I’m antithetic to life like entropy.

When you’re honest with me you’re speaking truth to power, lines so filthy need a booth to shower, I’ll devour a mound of rowdy doubters, spit a mouthful of white boys out in a Saudi bouncy house call it the iv’ry tower, when the mounting sound of their dour cow'ring gets foul, I’ll wow them, loudly regale them with a tale of how I found out the Sahara’s pale cuz I started a drought south of an Italian mountain, shout out to those louts who lousily spout when I tout my clout, yet bow down when I endow them with accounts of bein’ en route to knock out Ronda Rousey, Faust has got nothin’ on me cuz Lucifer’s my bitch, dork, bring forth his pitchfork to scratch an itch more, like poison ivy, can only be this fire if you plagiarise me, so revel in these iron rhymes I’m finding or I’ll kindly bind you to a pyre, my tight rhymes feel so right, desirous, final judge like Osiris, or ' Walter White with a bunch o’ ricin, my violent punchlines’ll crunch right at the hunched spine of young Mike Tyson and vaporize him, slice and dice him ‘till he’s an icy poltergeist so Ghostbusters'll bring a Dyson to exorcise him

I’m so frightening I’m like the might o’ Thor when he ‘ gets bored and spites the night with a bolt of lightning, make ‘em jolt like a colt that’s writhing, writing so bright and blinding I’ll ignite the entire Rhine, I’m so enlightening made Bill Nye question science, I’m what Barack was to Biden, so inspirin’ and righteous Christ tithes to me so I’ll provide him guidance, so you better abide and take my side or the ' tide’ll rise up and smite your tiny soul faster than a shoal of North Korean gener’als would boast after they roast the coast of Seoul, get emotional, cuz I fill you up call me the Holy Ghost, you think I’m mostly joking but I’m low-key focused, post up on a whole host of broken homes, folks call me James Earl Jones cuz I am your daddy, Tiger Woods’ my golfing caddy.




Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Lyrics: Self deprecating rap

Recording

My vision’s so bad it’s two pixels thick, oh wait no that’s the size of my dick. Ever seen a chick run away from a Wei so quick? Straight disappearin’ like a magic trick.
No I’m bein’ real, I got no game, paraplegics shun me cuz I’m too lame. My claim to fame? I got nothin’ to offer, flame in my belly’s like tepid water, committed to fatherhood then abandoned my daughter, parental absence like Harry Potter.
I’m less friendly than the Whomping WIllow, last date I went on was with a body pillow, cuddled up close but I got rejected, always do worse than what’s expected.

Decisions are needed? I’ll be hesitating. if I was a law they’d be abrogating. Tried to man up, started menstruating. Title of this song “Self Deprecating”.

Want to see me quit? You got your wish. I got less spine than a jellyfish. Jumped into the sea, sea spit me out. Poseidon’s like, “Who let this man into my house? I didn’t sign a waiver. Even Mr. Rogers wouldn’t be your neighbor.”
Reached for my backbone, found nothin’ there. If cowardice was cash I’d be a billionaire, if bravery’s silent call me Times Square, or Alpha Centauri cuz I’m full of hot air, and laissez-faire is my worst nightmare cuz the only seat for my derrière is also known as the electric chair.

My reflexes are nothing but vegetative, tried to be cool and self-immolated, flow’s not sick but you’re nauseated, just bein’ real when I self-deprecate it.

“Bag your face, there's something wrong.” Heard that from my doctor, and my mom. Walked up to a mirror, my reflection ran, didn’t stop till it was in Turkmenistan. Go down the street showing my face, and even the blind run like The Amazing Race.
When I leave the club all the people cheering, cuz I’m more of a farce than a supreme court hearing. You heard it right, I’m a total sham. Drywall’s as exciting as my Instagram. Cuz I’m as lively as ‘ a stillborn fetus, when an atheist sees me they turn to Jesus.

I don’t knowing how to conjugate, got no deadline but I’m still late, gene pool’s thankful when I masturbate, just bein’ honest when I self-deprecate.

Friday, September 14, 2018

Lyrics: Rap #3


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I’m the God of War like Ares, can’t approximate me with a Taylor Saries cuz I can’t be derived, make so much green I’m a bowl of chives, wit so sharp it’s like diamond knives, got so many plaques I got gingivitis, at the top like the Pope but not so pious

You’re a waste of style and oxygen, my waste is fertile like an ox, I gen’erate an oxidized state cuz I’m straight fire, not content with a quiet ascent, I’ll invent and augment this rap and when it gets sent world joy gets saved by fifteen percent like a Geico ad, and I'm so badass call me prostate cancer, I'm a blank Scantron cuz I need no answers.

I got no doubts about my self-worth, I’m the tallest mountain, I’ve been countin’ since birth, I’m an endless fountain of mirth with a number of fans equal to the population of earth

My rhymes never tarnish, they’re varnished like a lacquer, I’m what Rodgers is to the Packers, I’ll delete you like a common factor, give a mean performance like a hostile actor, the cost’ll factor in your fiscal year, I’m being crystal clear, I’m on a different tier, my lips appear to be an agent o’ God, a more ruthless Ahmadinejad, but the people love me, and it’s hard to blame ‘em when my face is so lovely.

You’re out back with a couple of beers, I’m workin’ so hard my blood sweat and tears could sate a sadist for a thousand years

My ragin’ brays assuage caged-in creatures, like a male Snow White with more Asian features, you're an old headline cuz you're an agin’ feature, I’m an amazin’ teacher, attract every soul from the field to the bleachers with my outsized boasts, I capsized boats when I was’ baptized in the revenue stream, I’m tellin’ you please, if you block my way pray I stay away cuz, hey I’m cray, I slay all day, I’ll spay a neighbor’s fav’rite mangy stray to make ‘em pay for a rayless day of grey, and they may say it was a strange behavior, but I’m Wei the Savior, holy like Saint Xavier, and I’m ‘ growing so exponentially, my sole superior is the future me.










Monday, September 10, 2018

He found only silence

His mouth contorted, searching for something to say, something meaningful to add. He found only silence

He yearned for it, anything even remotely interesting to share. He looked for it in every sliver and crevasse of his consciousness. His fervor oozed through every pore upon his skin; his desperation refracted through every bead of sweat upon his brow. He begged his mind to think of anything of value he could contribute -- anything at all.

He plunged into the depths of his creativity, and he found nothing there.

On Immigration

On July 23, 2018, I became a United States citizen. This occasion has caused me to ponder the issues of citizenship and immigration in greater detail.

In the wake of my new citizenship, someone asked me, "Now that you've gone through the whole process, how do you feel about people coming over here illegally?" I responded noncommittally due to timing issues, but my real answer is this: Illegal immigrants are some of the people who've suffered most, who are most desperate, most hardworking -- and for these reasons, they are some of the people who most deserve our compassion.

On a fundamental philosophical level, I reject the concept of nations entirely. The specific sovereign governments and borders on Earth today have little concern for human well-being; they are historical artifacts based on arbitrary geographical features, backwards violence, or pure happenstance. The more we discover about the nature of reality, the more the morally and socially questionable borders become.

Astronomy, for instance, has shown us our insignificance in the universe. There is a deep existential futility in trying to delineate the exact boundary between between two specks of land on a hardly larger speck of dust, floating through a cold and endless cosmos. Meanwhile, biology has revealed our deep genetic ties to one another. We are, in a very real sense, all members of one big evolutionary family; be we from Uganda or Peru, our common heritage is encoded in every cell of our body. And with the advent of commercial air travel and the Internet, all the places on this once-vast globe are suddenly much closer together.

These scientific advancements allow us to transcend our ugly tribal history. The perspective they provide is clear: We are all citizens of a global community, we are far more alike than we are different, and we are far better working together than apart. With our knowledge, it is no longer justifiable for us to cling to the in-group/out-group mentality of our evolutionary past. Consequently, my most moral scenario is one in which "immigration" as a concept becomes obsolete because we all consider ourselves members of the single, united nation of Earth.

Though this philosophical position may not be feasible right now, it's still important. It is the lens through which I view topics pertaining to immigration. I support most steps that can peacefully move us toward a more cooperative, cosmopolitan, global society, and away from borders, tribalism, and nationalism. Immigration is not easy; this is something I know firsthand. I want to live in a world where it is.

Friday, August 17, 2018

Love is not an endless ocean

Love is not an endless ocean
Love is not mere blind devotion

Love is not the tallest mountain
Love is not the Timeless Fountain

Love is not some stalwart castle
Love is not so young, so facile

Love is not a boundless chasm
Love is not pure enthusiasm

Love is not a life's commitment
Love is near and love is distant

Love is ever shifting, moving
breaking, forming, and improving

Love can quake and love and bend
Love can fail and love can end

None of these are love's damnation.
Love's great strength is not duration.

Love does not keep things in cages.
Love's beauty lies in how it changes.








Monday, June 25, 2018

I'm Lost

I'm lost, I said one fateful day, and wondered where I was.
So I went to go and search for me -- mostly just because.

I found myself on mountain vistas, past frigid, icy streams;
I found myself in English classrooms, amidst poetic themes.
I found myself in cheerful places, laughing to my core;
I found myself in grieving places, silent as the morgue.
I found myself in romantic places, dancing, getting kissed;
I found myself in craven places, filled with cowardice.

I'm lost, I told myself, desperate to be found;
Will I find my soul in Heaven? Or deep beneath the ground?

I found myself in tranquil moments, in the quiet of my mind;
I found myself in awkward moments, when the quiet was not so kind.
I found myself in triumphant moments, victorious, adored;
I found myself in lifeless moments, doing nothing, getting bored.
I found myself in wondrous moments, amazed at beauty's grace;
I found myself in filthy moments, in perversion's cold embrace.

Will I ever find myself? I pondered hopelessly.
I was there in all those moments, but was it truly me?

I found myself with kindness, performing selfless acts;
I found myself with treach'ry, breaking sacred pacts.
I found myself with patience, never wearing thin;
I found myself with turmoil, a raging storm within.
I found myself with passion, glowing in my eyes;
I found myself with shame, which I've managed to disguise.

And then I knew the answer, succeeded in my quest;
I found myself at last, at last! -- and I laid the matter to rest.
Where am I really? I asked myself, searching everywhere;
And found myself in all those places -- for I was always there.

I was never lost at all, you see. The hunt was all a sham.
Where I look, I find me. And that is where I am.