
knowledgegonzalez
Jerry "Knowledge" Gonzalez is a proud native / of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. / / Known for pushing buttons / and getting laughs by tackling real issues, / with a playful approach / to both his spoken word poetry / and as a songwriter. / / Knowledge Gonzalez, / was a member of the inaugural / Mississauga Poetry Slam Team, / at CFSW 2012, and represented / The Burlington Slam Project / at CFSW 2013 in Montreal.. / / Invited to perform at CMW 2014 / (Canadian Music Week 2014) / / Socan/BMI / / Http://Www.reverbnation.com/knowledgegonzalez
He stood there...
In shock..
Starring .....
crying . ....
He hasn’t looked away
Since the second he walked in..
while high on the acid
he was gonna do
with ....his best friend
The Same friend he now saw
Lying dead on the floor.
Laying limp against a wall,
That looked Like it was a canvas
For very beautiful and dark abstract art
.....painted with blood
they loved having deep Acid induced conversations
which he was looking forward to
But ...
before he could surprise her wit it,
He found her....Lisa.
Lisa.,
Who’s head now.....
Was mostly on the walls & floor
In fragments
Left reflecting imagery of horror
but ..
somehow ..
still ...
it was beautiful
hard to explain...
or maybe it was the acid ...
or... maybe It was beautiful....
and as the coroner and police arrive
still ...
his eyes Stay glued to the wall
Hypnotized by the blood stained
with pinks
Purples and reds.
chunks of her cranium spread,
Leaving subtle
traces of a peace of mind ....
that’s not a piece of mind.
thats when Lisa’s mother
Slowly Walks over....
crying uncontrollably
still in shock
She asks:
“are you ok?
“Let’s go....come on...”
and though she said this to him....
Her body language ......
Like his.....
indicated ......
that she could not walk away
and now she also stares ......
he says ...
“I’m a bit in shock I think .....
I can’t help feel guilt....
feeling maybe ...
I could have done .....more
She was my best friend...”
and as he says this
his cries finally Burst out
but .... still
he hasn’t talkin his eyes off the wall
her mom replied
“ she loved you so much ...”
and still ...
tbey stare.
both crying.
Then he says :
“Do you think ammonia will be Used
to clean this wall up??”
her mom was Puzzled by the question
and replied:
“I’m ... not sure ....why?”
he says
“Because ...
I think this will sound crazy ...
but...
the way her blood ,
And splattered....
It’s.....
it’s beautiful.....
And this caused them both
to cry even harder...
but also.....
breaking a smile for a split Second
as they both knew the comment ...
was obscure and out of place ....
But as they both still stare ...
Hypnotized by the wall.....
they both knew it Was said genuinely....
Then he says ....
“I really wish she could see this ...”
Her mom even more perplexed now
says:
“Why?”
still,
Not looking away
he says:
...because ...
she always said .....
she felt ugly ...
actually,
she said She was ugly ....
Her mom says :
...I know ...
the kids were relentless
when it came to teasing her
it got worse as a teen in school
I think ....
she heard it so much ....
That she believed it...
that’s why she’d always say it...
She would call herself ugly
more than her bullies did ...
He says :
“ I know ...
she said it so much to me
That after a while
I’d get sick of hearing it ...
And often told her it annoyed me
Her mom says ....
“ I know ...
I’d always tell her
true beauty
is when you’re beautiful on the inside...
That’s what is important....
( both Still starring)
he says :
“....ya...ironic isn’t it .....”
Her mom:
“What is?”
He says :
....that she wasn’t ugly at all
her beauty was like .....
Like ...
The Mona Lisa....
Off putting.....
esoteric....
but ....
beautiful...
and when this wall gets cleaned ...
it’ll be ...ammonia Lisa ...
she be exactly what she thought she wasn’t ....
beautiful.
Beautiful as art.....
Just like the “Mona Lisa”..
Ammonia lisa.
Like a painting so beautiful
Even her insides that should be
Hard to look at ....
are left like a symbolic piece of art
Leaving her to be what she never
felt she was ....Beautiful....
like A Mona Lisa.....
ammonia Lisa ...
even harder now....they cried together....
almost wanting to laugh ....
still starring ....
starring at the beauty
that was painted in horror and pain..
like the most beautiful tragic art...
......Ammonia Lisa ....
Jul 14, 2019
Jul 14, 2019 at 2:34 PM UTC
We sacrifice what’s valuable for less
Than it accrues in interest on your debt
Which will only double like the puddles
When tears from struggles and regret
Come to collect your self respect
if our soul was fashionable you can bet
Most people would strangle the life from it, just to wear it around their neck
under the impression our possessions worth the Misdirection from stressin
including the Indiscretions collectiin
Like it’s infection is a blessin
Ignoring what’s left in its lessons
like imperfections are progression
Lack of investment in self affection
leaves us detesting our Reflection
Masking insecurities with our ********
women with make up, no exemption
Our projected Self imagerys Placed above our spiritual growth, causin is the tension
The Self hatred, suicide, depression
We forgot who we were impressin
our vanity is insanity, and its calamity
is savagery but these obsessions
are Useless as thoughts and prayers
Or Facebook profile pics with frames
Showing support for tragic Terrorist attacks, or mass shootings that aim
at the innocent, but the truth is
Most don’t care, as much as they buzz
They do it to feel better about doing nothing, when even donating blood,
is doing more that fake Facebook posts
Of useless sympathy could ever
It’s just condescending well wishes
from fake ******* we all must endeavour
As if were all eating each other’s ********
Putting on fake fronts for other fakes
like a masquerade for assholes,to dress like **** heads, for other ******* snakes
and it’s hilarious, but also nefarious,
just like your local politician
who’s poisonous like physicians,
sellin big pharmas drugs wit prescriptions
causing opioid epidemic, addiction
but cognitive dissonance is positioned
So whistle blowing, the little knowing
is labelled conspiracy theory so vision
Is lost when brainwash takes intuition
leaving thought useless like tuition
why invest in an education system
when our own government ****** isn’t
societys becoming economical prison
but we just allow the constant piracy
too self indulgent to protect our rights
to protest and fight, so our privacy
Like freedom of speech, gone entirely
before anyone starts their *******
too distracted by issues for division
media creating bias’ on our television
Instigating prevention of unity risen
til our power in numbers gives immunity
strategically calculated, and predicated
on us inadvertently granting impunity
to the rich and powerful when brutally
is gun smoke, and cut throat lunacy
expressed in attitude to our neighbours, how can strangers have a community?
narrow minded views cause collision
sexuality, race, and gender, opinions
arguing over the illusion of equality ignoring quality, still we argue religion
and beliefs, that make us see difference
Instead of what’s common, our positions
On protecting our family, our jobs,
the fundamentals in the life we are livin
too blind to see any of it clearly
Most of our control we lost when ignored
busy hating each other while the
real threats are laughing at how poor
and how stupid, petty, and ridiculous
do you think rich powerful men
Give a **** what god another rich man prays to, or if and when
He chooses to have *** who he bends
Over and rams? Cuz really ...in truth
Sexuality is irrelevant in this case
Cuz we’re all about to get *******
but what the hell do I know? True.
I’m just a self righteous dude with words
but one day we’re gonna be like caged parrots who look up at other birds
Who fly free in the sky
and pity them for not having their own
little space like they do not recognizing freedom, thinking his cage is a home
Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 7:14 PM UTC
My environment raised me to fantasize
and romanticize fairytale plots
Constantly told Everyones special, but if
everyone’s special, is special... not
told violence isn’t the answer, but grown men start wars, told its childish to fully
Manipulate and intimidate at school...
like adult workplaces don’t have bullies
My lack of contentment and resentment
are petty and petulant, so I’ll recant it
but impossible expectations make failure an inevitable feeling as disenchantment
comes from being sold magic and gold dreams were told to chase and harbour
but reality showed the fallacy, cuz the only happy endings are in massage parlours
Cuz maturation, brings lacerations
a mental state knowing only ************ for self exploration, so complications
with my identity caused me exasperation
so my child will learn of the wild waitin
Nothing inhumane, just rationalization
No Unrealistic imagery, or idealistic epiphany, just realizations
Instead of illusions most institutions
that directly rooted, or Alluded
Being intoxicated left toxic hatred,
I got from the delusive undiluted
Euphoric delusion, an intrusion conducive
with ecstasy come downs, now habitual
feeling missed opportunities residual
like manifestation of the metaphysical
actually exists, it insists, a ritual
a nagging cyst that sits, subliminal
like a psyches itch, that persists, and only exists, cuz I can’t resist, being miserable
but what is emphatically unequivocal
makes me combatively typical
Like my psychosis births mitosis roaches
that are magically cynical
like an angry lucky charms leprechaun who’s going insane, way passed clinical cuz I’m too myopic to see this topic,
making me neurotic, isn’t the typical
response cuz logic isnt the pinnacle
when trying to ration what is invisible
and take the hypothetically and try to remedy, what’s not theoretically divisible
So I’m left where I began, remaining
Knowing my complaining, is draining
Partially wishing, for the convincing
the world is beautiful, the painting
I use to see when faith in humans
and in destiny, still arresting me
instead of seeing how dark and cold it is, unable to ignore the unpleasantry
life isn’t all jewels and sparkling glitter
Happy thoughts & rainbows and that
Doesn’t change earths mean maggots
Like jean jackets bedazzled, it’s still crap
Jul 13, 2019
Jul 13, 2019 at 6:43 PM UTC
Don’t try to fit in,
in fact, try to be more odd
If you don’t see bereavements
as achievements
it’s your view that’s flawed
which explains why I see motivation where you see peasants
Why you see failure not experience,
Or a curse where I see a present
It’s all in attitude, your approach
how you perceive progression
You see scars, I see trophies, you see mistakes I see lessons,
You say life’s hell, I see heaven
They say reality is perception
that’s why Wasted time and money
look identical to a good investment
So when I see hard work pay off
You’ll just see it as luck and scoff
which I see as inspiration for you
but all you see is a loss
all you see is where you are, so where you could be is robbed
But if you can’t see achievement in bereavements it’s your view thats flawed
if you can’t see trophies not scars
Or lessons and not mistakes
then you’ll never get why I see u ****** yourself, where u swear your bein raped
Mar 10, 2018
Mar 10, 2018 at 2:23 AM UTC
He stood there...
Starring .....
Just ...
crying ...
and ....
Starring ....
He hasn’t looked away
Since the second he walked in
And found his best friend Lisa
dead ....Who’s head.....
Was mostly covering the wall
That was behind her.....
like an Erie painting
meant to be horrific..., but
somehow ....
still ...
it was....beautiful
....hard to explain...
But.....beautiful....
and as the police arrive
still his eyes....
They Stay glued to the wall
blood stained with reds,
chunks spread,
Leaving subtle
traces of pinks and Purples ....
then Lisa’s mother still crying
asks:
“are you ok?
“Let’s go....come on...
and though she said this to him....
Her body language ......
Like his.....
indicted ......
that she could not walk away
and now she also stares ......
he says ...
“I’m a bit in shock I think .....
And feel guilt
from feeling maybe ...
I could have done .....more
Lisa was my best friend...”
and as he says this
his cries Burst out
and breaks harder .....
but ....
never talkin his eyes off the wall
her mom replied
“ she loved you so much ..”
and still
tbey stare , both crying.
Then he says :
“Do you think ammonia will be
Used to clean this up??”
Puzzled, her mom replies :
“I’m not sure ....why?”
he says;
“Because ...
I think this will sound crazy
but...
the way her blood ,
And all her insides splattered....
It’s.....
it’s beautiful.....
And this caused them both to cry even harder... ,
but also.....
Chuckle for a split Second
as they both knew the comment ...
was Seemingly out of place ....
But as they both still stare ...
Hypnotized by the wall.....
they both knew it
Was said genuinely....
Then he says ....
I really wish she could see this ...
Her mom even mow perplexed says:
“Why?”
and still,
Never looking away
he says:
...because ...
she always said .....
she felt ugly ...
said ....
She was ugly ....
Her mom says :
...I know ...
she was teased a lot in school
I think ....
I think she said it so much ....
That she believed it...
He says :
“ I know ...
she said it so much to me
That after a while
I’d get sick of hearing it ...
And often told her....
Her mom says ....
“ I know ...
you always said
Being beautiful on the inside
was More important....
( Still starring)
he says :
“....ya...ironic isn’t it .....”
Her mom:
“What is?”
He says :
....that she wasn’t ugly at all
her beauty was like .....
Like ... Mona Lisa....
Off putting.....esoteric....
but .....beautiful...
and when they clean it ...
....it’ll be ammonia Lisa ...
left ......
To be.....
what she thought she wasn’t ....
beautiful ...
Beautiful as art.....
Like a painting so beautiful
Even her insides
that should be Hard to look at ....
are left like a symbolic piece of art
... the leaves her looking the way
she never felt she was ....
Beautiful....
like A Mona Lisa.....ammonia Lisa
even harder ....
......now they cried ,
almost wanting to laugh ....
still starring
starring at the beauty
that was painted in pain... art...
like A Mona Lisa....
......Ammonia Lisa ....
Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 4:49 AM UTC
when suicide, is glued inside
The will to survive, in you divides
And when it gets too hard to deny
Do or die, becomes do and die....
So I divise a list wit a few or five
Plus 7 for 12 ways to do it by
And if I left a letter for suicide
Itd be this list and ***** it bye":
Knife to my throat is felt
Gun in my mouth, then squeeze
Inject ****** in myself to help
Permanently put me out, and sleep
Infront of a bus, I just leap
Cut my wrists, and slit deep
Find someone to lay wit aids and sleep
If they refuse I'll **** like a creep
Start my cars engine, take a seat
parked in my garage that's closed
attach the exhaust pipe to a hose
Then inhale til pale, all the smoke
Go to a kkk rally, all black clothes
Blasting Rap music, then I'd say
I'm a Jewish Muslim feminist
against ****** & flamboyantly gay
While I burn a confederate flag
And If that don't get me killed
dad says I dont finish what I start, he'll be proud cuz this time will
So the bathtub with water I'll fill
Then Plug in my radio and shower
For execution by electrocution
or just Jump off the cn tower
Skip like a school girl in rush hour
Across the highway until Im hit
Climb in a dumpster on garbage day before their pick up and sit
And that's another 12 that's it
I reject what many call a gift
To reimburse this curse, that birth
Gave hurt, but I know this...
That.when suicides glued inside
will ...to survive, in ...you divides
It's too hard to.deny so you decide,
That Do or die, is do and die
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 2:50 AM UTC
i try to work with a punctilious
attitude, and be conscientious
but it's tedious bein fastidious
vs. mischievous and pretentious
condescending, persnickety
assiduously, picky people
who keep nitpicking, snippy, sickly while judgemental they're evil
jerks, sedulously deceitful
methodical when diabolical
it's ridiculous how meticulous
these hypocrites are symbolical
is ice, so suffice is a Popsicle
society for sobriety is invidious
i drown in tears while amphibious
are the oblivious, and supercilious
who **** me like the lascivious
but most are naturally perfidious
& birth of its insipid incipience
always was, humans are hideous
and maniacal like puritanical
was a mechanical part of biology
which is like psychology based on astrology, so even mycology
can't explain some guys fungi
and some try to think logically
but being **** about hypocrisy
in thought can be, like ******
to the psyche, a likely lobotomy
cuz conscience is mythological
cuz wealth perpetual, comes to the less ethical so impossible
is altruism, as cynicism feeds the vision of their egotism
til rights far from wrong like paganism is to catholicism
that's why i live metaphysical
A mental visual state that invisible
where happiness is centrical
and by sacrifice isn't divisible
or only seen by our peripherals
cuz it's the only way comin to bliss
the only invention to fight tension for prevention of cuttin my wrists
Sep 16, 2017
Sep 16, 2017 at 2:08 AM UTC
Why do women that i like
Always say **** like
"I like you , but I'm not ready for
something serious!"....right ....
Sounds like ******** to me
Cuz if she liked me she'd be
Ready, but instead she
Doesn't sag what she means
Cuz what she means is
"I think I'll wait for someone better"
Cuz I'm good enough to be
Friend zoned, but she'll never
Admit I'm not good enough ever
Cuz I've seen this before
Some people get scared hearing
Gun shots but A closing door
Causes me way more horror
Cuz truth is the whole package
Doesn't consist of a fat body
Cuz I maybe cute but unattractive
Overall, so overhauled yet again
Is the familiar reflection
That personifies rejection
So I'll answer the question
Of why she doesn't like me
Cuz I'm a sketchers, not Nike
a no name handbag, when Gucci
Gets the coochi, so ***** likely
Will go to some ******* unlike me
With less heart to offer
who will take her for granted
But as long as he's hotter
Or makes money like a doctor
He's automatically above
I guess that's why I need drugs
The only substitution for love
To fill, what never will be filled
By a companion, cuz a bangin
Full gallery of Personality,, don't
Beat salary, so hangin
Like a man from a rope
as suicide takes air out his throat
Left dead, is my chance to advance
like I choke on hops
So of course back to dope
Is how I cope, but I know that
All I have to offer, isn't hotter
than the beauty of a 6 pack
Left wishing I was like crack
Like I was anything that stops me
From being inferior, like an exterior
Less inferior, so she'd want me
But like always all I'm wanting
Seems to just be too much
why can't someone want me
and not be , saying what she does
when she doesn't say
what she says , not saying it cuz
she don't wanna be rude and say The truth... I'm just not enough
Jul 16, 2017
Jul 16, 2017 at 11:38 PM UTC
She sits on the toilet seat,
in her washroom crying.
Holding a razor so sharp,
It could tear her flesh,
Until it causes her veins,
To slowly drain,
the unbearable pain
That stains...
just as the blood would.....
leaving a puddle,
Symbolizing her troubles
That she could no longer try to struggle with.
So as she sits on the toilet,
Hoping to cut herself,
Just like the knives did
when her friends stabbed her in the back.
She antagonizes herself,
to instigate and encourage,
What she sees as courage
To end an existence,
she feels Is worthless.
So on purpose,
She Forces out the memories,
The memories of all the love she gave.....
Never returned.
All the family who's backs turned,
All the people she loved,
Now lost, left in an urn.
She thinks of all the attention
She got from being fat,
And all the attention she did not get
because of that.
She thinks of all the times,
she was left to pick up the pieces
of her broken heart.
She thinks of all the lonely nights
She cried herself to sleep.
All the faded dreams
The insecurities that scream,
And the empty, broken promises.
She thinks of all the debt,
Being broke,
working a dead end job,
She busts her *** at,
For a boss who constantly
degrades her.
Just so her parents can give her
a look of disappointment,
at every Holiday,
And family gathering,
That speaks in silence saying:
"Why did you drop out of college"
"Why can't you be more like your sister"
She thinks of all her friends,
Who got married,
and had kids,
And how she now stopped wondering
why no one loves her....
Because.....
How could they?
So she accepts,
What she feels, as true.
Feeling like she has nothing to offer.
Feeling like a constant failure who's
Only progression,
she stands possessing
Is waking up and not feeling the depression...
So she cuts,
Now Bleeding,
Frustrated with herself,
knowing it isn't deep enough.
Only to leave a scar,
Just like the other countless attempts that failed in the past,
When she sat,
on her toilet Wanting to die....
Til all that crosses her mind,
is the nauseating,
annoying, question:
"Can't I do anything right?"....
...all she wants is for the pain to stop.
All she wants,
Is to be free of the panic attacks.
Free of feeling like a burden
to those around her.
Free of the perpetual
pessimistic thoughts,
that now plague her,
As hopes of the manifestation
Of happiness,
Are gone,
and have only left her bitter.
So as she cuts again,
using more force,
She prays to a god
she no longer Believes in,
For the strength,
to be weak enough...
to end it...
Still crying,
And still denying,
That anything but dying
Will ever bring her
a piece of peace....
Jul 15, 2017
Jul 15, 2017 at 5:45 AM UTC
They taught us growing up
When violence was the topic
That it is not the answer
Only to see we support war for profit
Told to be yourself,
Don't follow the crowd, but fact
When u do so, and it's too esoteric
They say: "no! not like that"
Teach us not to bully, as if adults
Are above it like they lament
It's existence, only to see it occur
In workplaces and social events
Teach us tolerance only to find out
Tolerance only applies
If ur not religious, cultured, ugly,
a minority, trans gender gay or bi
Told they thought the earth was flat,
only to find out it's not
Now some say again it's flat,
and from the past ud think we got
The lesson this taught
Which is to stay open and stop
To question what we think we know
But still most never thought
To challenge the media, government,
what we're fed
And choose to be fools, give up our
Privacy, lemmings off the edge
Supporting a fight against terrorism,
that's a lie , cuz what
Is really going on is ulterior motive
Swept under the rug
As real issues like pharmaceutical
Drugs given by our own is most
Alarming as it's harming,
so many who now overdosed
So teach whats not taught
Cuz what's taught, has not
Taught us what independent thinking,
can bring and stop
The lies, before our demise
Implies what you'll find soon
As it's too late, at this rate
Which is we will be doomed
Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 7:38 PM UTC