“They be saying I’m a cool cat, Fuck that, tell them niggaz I’m a top dog.” Rashad, RIP Young. It might be that understanding yourself is difficult because you have never felt your absence. Unlike everyone else, you do not know what it feels like when you walk out of the room – or when you walk in. You have…
Author: Woozie
Don’t. Blink.
“I just came to beat a bully’s ass and get my lunch back… …And I’m just in the studio, hoping that it sounds right, here’s a brighter bulb for your limelight.” – Chance the Rapper, Prom Night What will you do when you realise that it was never theirs to take away? When, after years of languishing in the dark,…
A child is born, you won’t believe what happens next!
The observer observing itself observing itself is a far enough place from which to hold a perspective without falling too far into the never ending chaos of trying to see life from the perspective of the viewer – is there an end? Some people feel the need to dress this perspective and give it philosophically coloured glasses through which to…
The dance is in the dancing
One day you will go out to build. Like every time you go out to build, it will feel like a final build. In the back of your mind you will shrug the feeling – you always say it will be the last time. It never is. So that day, like everyday, you will take your axe to canvas and…
Sigh
I’d rather we not do this, I’d rather not be fooled if ever there was promise, it sure did have me schooled. . I see you with that devilish glare that glinter in your eyes. The glimmer in that deathly stare shows truth behind the lies . And yet I be, just little old me Asleep, aslumber here. And yes,…
Virabhadrasana
Let them know that no matter the consequences it is here that you shall stand. Plant your feet lightly into the ground, ready and nimble, listening to the winds carry whispers of those who plot your demise. And even as they plot, remember that there is nothing to do but be radiant through it all. That your days of battle…
Meliority
Be the girl you loved. James Blake It is now. You are here – again. You recognise the middle of nowhere from your perilous journey, your nose now far behind you (life is cyclical any straight line leads to the beginning). We live looking for a comfortable way to die before realising that death itself may be the only comfort.…
Weightless
“Your success took a shot at you, what are you gonna do now? You gonna become unsuccessful?”– American Gangster “To live a better life, you know as well as I, that falling down is easy when you’re close to the ground.”– Siffre, For the lovin Eventually, once you think that you have understood the lay of the land and your…
Pass the butter
“oh simple thing, where have you gone?”– Keanne, somewhere only we know. Fractals fascinate me. There was a point in my life when I would spend hours watching fractal animations fold, unfold and refold into themselves. What gets me about them is always how simple the progression is. How the more you look and turn a simple idea, the more…