Slammed this one out after a day spent with those we call the thumbtribe...

YOUNG MINDS SAY IT LIKE THEY'VE LIVED AN ETERNITY...
BUT TRUTH IS THIER ROAD AHEAD LOOKS LIKE AN ABSURDITY.

I SAY PROPS TO THE OLD SCHOOL
THEY DON'T CARE TO APPEAR COOL...
OUR FOCUS ON FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND SHARING.
THE KNOWLEDGE WE'VE GAINED IS HOW WE EXPRESS LOVE AND CARING.

YO... COMMON RAP CULTURE OF VIOLENCE AND WEALTH
LEADS ONLY TO THE DESTRUCTION OF FAMILIES AND SELF.
WHY IDOLIZE THUGS LIKE THE CRIPS AND THE BLOODS?
NORTENEOS - SURENUOS THAT TRAMPLE THE HOODS.
THEY LITTER OUR STREETS
WITH BULLET SHELLS, BODY BAGS AND GRIEF.

THE WEALTH THEY CREATE IS NOBODYS GAIN.
STOP - ACCESS, DON'T BUY INTO THAT GAME...
ONCE YOU DO - YOU LOOSE
SHAME MAKES YOU INSANE.

IN THE END ITS NOT ABOUT CARS, MONEY, STYLE AND POWER.
PAVE YOUR PATH IN A MANNER THAT LASTS MORE THAN AN HOUR.
CAUSE WHILE OUR MOVEMENT ACROSS EARTH IS MEASURED IN MILES
THE IMPACT ON OTHERS SHOULD BE WITNESSED IN SMILES.

VOTER APATHY IS WEIGHING DOWN FUTURE GENERATIONS.
GET COUNTED - ITS A PRIVLEDGE.
A DEBT TO PAY OUR SOLDIER DYING - LYING RIDGED.

POLITICIANS - SPECIAL INTERESTS...
VESTED SHARES BEING PAID OUT - ITS SIMPLY INCEST.

IF YOU DON'T VOTE - YA CANT' SHOUT OUT
CAUSE YOUR OPINION CARRIES NO CLOUT
ACTIVISM ISN'T A NOUN - TO BE A PLAYAH PUT YOUR VOTE DOWN

PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH...
PROTEST MIS-COUNTS DOWN IN PALM BEACH
HANGING CHAD - MICHAEL POWELL...
YOUR GOING DOWN NOW - WE'RE CALLING THE FOUL!

HIP HOP THE VOTE IN 2000 - OH FOUR
PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT...HELL NO!!! NO MORE!!!

property of bragbox, nbv.
copyright 2004

this slam was used as cover letter... got job?!?


To Claim --> Entertain --> Stimulate the Brain.
In Sales I Have no Shame - You do? Your Game is Lame. That's no way to Gain Acclaim
The ThumbTribe represents the Future of our Mission - Then Cross the Chasm and Win Sole #1 Position
Its Truly Easy - Smile Wide - Don't be Sleazy.
My Skill is Real. I Sell How I Feel. If your Products Banging - My Commission is Slammin.
My Creativity is Communicating with People and Building Relationships that Last
Its Why You'll Hire me - Act Fast!

I Live Life Now. The only way I Know How.
Life Lessons from my Past so my Knowledge will Last.
And Laugh at the Memory of Diving underneath a Waterfall - Only to Rise Up no longer with UnderAll.
Family, Love, and Work is my Reflection - Skating and Flow is my Resurrection

this one's for my Gatito...

KNO-di-FLOW

Bouncin towards destiny,
Flowing like you and me.
Gonna ride out the times,
Bustin out mad tunes-n-rhyms.
Flowin like you and me,
Our lives - together
Lovin you for eternity.

We met when times was chill,
Neither of us on the backslide hill.
One pillow forevah,
Say it - you know.
Two lives combined,
Flowin - fo sho.

With mortages and family, needs of others empose responsibility.
Suprise reunions and found time are precious slices of devine.
But truthfully our sanity through unity too low priority - usually.
Must stop - regather. Expectations do really matter.

Cause its the flow we missin,
Dismiss all the bitchin.
Point our lives and carve the line,
where our lives join - intertwined.
Mad flow - smoothly free.
Lives swirling like leaves in tea.
Your love envelopes me in calm serenity.

Dropin then poke out
Grindin feind.
Pop - shove it - fake back in.
Inverted briefly then wipe out.
Luvin you is a sweet dream.

The lives you've directed,
Deaply affected - in fact resurected.
including mine - just in time.

So don't question your lift.
Good karma is pure.
Made healing your gift...
your love's my only cure.

Our flow is da kine.
Your stoke lifted mine.
Flowing like you and me.
Bouncin towards destiny.

Copyright 2004 BragBox, nbv

Six Months Later...

i slammed this about the same time as my last post but nevah posted. must've been too busy keeping the buzz. check it.

SIX MONTHS TO GO:

TIME AND OPTIONS RUNNIN OUT FAST

GONNA LOSE IT ALL

GOTTA STOP LIVIN IN THE PAST

BLOGGIN HEALS THE DEBT MY SOUL DOES OWE

ANOTHA LIFE DIAGNOSED FATAL

ONLY SIX MONTHS TO GO

REALITY SINKS IN

NO MO NINE LIVES - ALL SPENT

ONLY SIX MONTH TO GO

A HOME AND A WIFE TO HONOR

A BRILLIANT SON AND A BEUTIFUL DAUGHTAH

BEING SOBER IS HARD

GOTTA NOT WANT THE GANGHA

MY LIFE STANDS IN THE BALANCE

ONE TOKE AND AND I'LL THROW

ALL MY EFFORTS GONE - UP IN SMOKE

ONLY SIX MONTHS TO GO

... the life diagnosed fatal was claimed three months earlier than expected. and at only age 45 was ended much sooner than proper. this blog is dedicated to my bro - johannes franciscus

and yes i have stayed sober six months. /EDJ

WTF....?

so another bout of insomnia prompts a random blog. no suprise here. its all part of the process - right?

the tedious thoughts pounding through my cranium include: squishing spiders, reviewing install steps with the umpteenth caller, remembering / changing passwords, more phreaking passwords, fiixng my relationships, healing, coping, succeeding and all while mourning yet another loss.

and then there's the painful reminder that all is not lost - yet. so much has been taken from me and it feels like much as been given by me yet the scales seem to never even out. positive economic indicators my ass. not that i'm crying... its been months since that's happend and then years and years before the aforementioned [and very brief] incident. thereapy - fuck. explain how am i supposed to feal better if i cry...? tbs imho.

but a sliver of a moon reminds me that even when it seems dark there is a bright light shining - albeit elsewhere. i can look fwd to SSP, ST on my SCMTB, daLane and getting a good grind on. thats the flow... when do i go?

i ask to expand my territory... gotta strong jones for the corp funded expense acct. road trip. processing new visuals/sounds/experiences always seems to help.

and if your still reading this... wassup with that?!?

HOOT!

Welcome To My BragBox [aka; BragBlog]

From this corner of my universe [at the moment of initial creation it was a cubicle inside the Televigation World Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California] you may encounter enlightening dispatches, infernal rants and hopefully at least, some light banter...

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be well....

/edj