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409 · Sep 2016
the darkness of whiteness
I see colors
not sure what you see
why do you put them together like you do?
it is not what they mean
you got it all wrong
interpreted to traumatize
to shape fear into profit
not what colors mean
not where eyes came from
not what light shows you
in the darkness
of whiteness
The government just called me
Actually the government told the police to call me
to be more specific
we all know how when referring to authorities
it is extremely important to be clear
detailed
and concise
because of how extremely uneducated they are
and also insecure
but anyways
as polite as the officer be
asked me,
encouraged me,
I guess threatened me,
If I really think it through
Officer says,
“Sir…Mr. Gregory.”
“Yes.” I say
“We…well the government of the United States of the America. Is willing to…wants to give you a certain amount of funding. Well, money. To stop being anti-racist.”
“Oh really?” I say
“Umm…yes. You see. We. Meaning the associates of the government…”
“The associates of white supremacy.”
I interjected
“Right. Yes. Well you know that. Well thats exactly it Mr. Gregory. We have been doing just fine without other people or too many of them know that. We the government and its associates…”
“Whiteness is a mental illness” I interrupted again.
“Yes. Yes. Okay. So yeah. We are offering you…roughly…25000 a month. To only do things…well…not anti-racist. Its part of the affirmative action project.”
I signed it right then and there
399 · Aug 2016
Trojan Man!
Africa sent a Trojan horse to America
You call them slave ships
Lurking through slavery
Pure resilience
And when
After a hard long day
In the future which is now
White supremacy
Having not worked at all
unlabored
Fell asleep
full from all the fruits of blackness
And its throat was slit
once and for all
The Trojan Horse is me
398 · Aug 2016
believe me
I’m an atheist but with people
I don’t believe in anyone that creates gods
or that responsibility
that is cleverly left for dead
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397 · Sep 2016
shaking
look divide separate perseverate
alleviate alone groups filled with emptiness
families without relatives
social climbing down a cliff
with nothing to hold
climbing the endless journey
away from evolved us
taking involved us
shaking our roots from the dirt
the ground we once had with us
roots will search forever
in darkness
water is somewhere to be found
we will never give up
by design
contrary to the common enforcement
of reality that separates perseverates
polarity sincerely and honestly
without remorse
resolve
a discourse
of course life sustains the death
you dream of so vividly
lucid
just like when woke up
by awake people
with so much at stake
they cannot wait to sleep again
on the memory foam of America
frothing into nature
white water rapids ******* math
engineering with no one steering
stretching for the light
that enforced he was the son of god
but that was not originally the lightning rod
of Zeus
who was also blacker than Olympus lead on
and Medusa turned your reality into stone
from liquid fluid intake of love
396 · Mar 2017
Jet planes
As the force of the jet
pushed my head back into the seat
I watched the racism of whiteness
become smaller
and smaller
and it disappeared
then all it was is clouds
awww...
this must be heaven
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391 · Apr 2019
exorcism of colonialism
Every time I write a poem
I think the world is going to end right before I finish it
Is this healthy?!
387 · Aug 2016
death threat to evolution
******* humanitarian
evolution
this is a letter from corruption
don't tell them about the bodies
384 · Oct 2016
gifts
pulling up to Chicago
approaching the ex slaves
gangs
ancient African leaders
videos of confederates
in the Berkshires
the country
isolated on the east coast
the vengeance of the native
is common throughout the world
is felt deep inside America
inherently connected
gangsters once in Africa
the world has your back
racist white Americans are few
isolated
confident
****** and weak
they have a lot you could take
land
food
weapons
to build what you want
to give the land culture
dance and color
stop killing for race
killing with ethical vengeance
take out the true enemy
nothing can stop you
vengeance is symbiosis
vengeance is the heart
380 · Nov 2016
hunting in the hood
hunting in the hood
wilderness of whiteness
tell your dog to stay inside
my boys are back in town
hunting yotes
keep your children inside
don’t worry about what you hear
outside
stay out of your yard
sneak peek
windows speak
yotes forgotten every year
an aging princess
in hunting season
bares her beauty
to the meadows
deer licked apples eaten
love has mercy
on severe promises
penetrated
hunting in the hood
377 · Jun 2016
sex
***
Im really getting used to the wasting of paper
I try to at the least be nourishing with ink
I had to smile to ask her to dance
Within 2 seconds she could tell it was pretend
They can feel that I was off somewhere else
That I am just an outsider visiting the night life
They can smell how much I have been studying
That I doubted the reality of whiteness from a young age
she can smell the doubt all over me
The echoes are still fresh
coming out of my pores
she can smell that I just denounced whiteness to an audience the night before
her sense of smell is as keen as her gyrating  hips
snakey moves
but you just wait girl
soon it will be even cooler to denounce whiteness
as a mental illness
cooler than it was to create the idea of slavery
those that are hip
will be shaking them to my drums
waiting to hear my deeply rooted words
empathy
***
376 · Jan 2017
whiteness and America
protesting Trump
you really are
protesting
the impunity of whiteness
invented to exploit
oppression from the beginning
finally in the open
blackness has been this protest
since being scientifically packaged
on slave ships
packaging what to tell humans
to make them think they are
better with whiteness
he should be scared to leave his office
it should be unsafe
even within the oval office
trips and slams chins on desk
hard mahogany imported
from the fear of Africa
from the fear of birth
the fear of evolution
no one noticed
he rotted in his office for weeks
the residue of obsolete whiteness
America
is only as good as it
it recognizes
and assimilates
into the free steps
of the black woman
marching with lactating *******
social scars
soreness
from fleeing the evil of whiteness
lifetimes through
thick words
thick voluptuous developed mind
dressed in dazzling resilience
in love with freedom
375 · Aug 2016
Conspire or else!!
the reason it is so hard for some to take conspiracy seriously
is because all they ever do
is conspire
they wouldn’t even know
where to begin
to relate to the oppressed
even though the conspirators
do not even care about race
and made it up on purpose
to replace origins and
create a new ending
in making slavery the beginning
of something
evolution is missed
an ending not confined by evolution
you got tricked
by the conspiracy of whiteness
that has been institutionalized
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374 · Mar 2017
Mesmerized
I fight for you
You fight me so kindly
I love it so carefully
You could never sneak behind me
Even choose to support condemnation of grief
interrupting mourning
for a night of sleep too soon
The sunset
never looked like any of your paintings
Yet the sunset is not enough
The rise has to be rough
when smiles raise dimples so violent and bright
If mesmerized we burn through the night
373 · Dec 2016
Space Ship!!
black space ship and a white space ship
they leave earth
ravaged by environmental racism
they land on a new earth at the same time
as a gift
a thank you
energy transformation
people of white space ship
offer to sacrifice some as slaves
for 350 years
to give people in black space ship headstart
the people of black space ship
refuse kindly
stating,
“we are not evil and dissociative."
367 · Aug 2016
my writing is alive...
and more real than your fears
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366 · Jul 2016
dissociation of whiteness
Ray

dead silence
“its too ****** quiet in here!
No wonder people hang themselves in here. If there were hooks there would be people on each one of them!”
His 60 year old smooth Puerto Rican english
better than the young white prison guard
“I need my meds! Its been 3 days!”
His afro cuban beats on the cell doors
helped me sleep it through
handcuffed together in a fast swerving moving van
a dangerous steel space
with no where to hold
a hard smooth steel bench
slippery and hard
sciatic nerve damage
unmedicated
looking out the diagonal steel lined window
“in the near future. This will be an amusement ride. To show how inhumane it used to be before whiteness was human.”
I slept
he didn’t
his eyes were losing their focus
amazing man being killed by a business
those mental ills of whiteness  
guards had no idea
how special these humans were
that they made them not autonomous
the captivity and its brutality
captivity and bad communication
the failure of whiteness
these prisoners are found not guilty
it should be slanted towards those that our innocent
not slanted toward white mass murderes
or the mental illness of whitenes
361 · Jul 2016
warriors of exposure
professional warriors of exposure
are uniting quick
exponentially
there is no military that can stop this
the more it tries to subdue with force
and manipulate means to justify force
the worst its punishment will be
the worse for the people that were
complacent
apathetic
investing in a thought
that it will all blow over
like it did when Jim Crow Laws
were incorporated into society
this country has never seen what is going to happen
never before has racism been so
technologically blatant
empathy is more advanced than ever
in America
and the world that which makes America up
There have never been this many oppressed people in so many various spaces that were once reserved for the oppressors
infiltration is American as you can get
#blacklivesmatter #poetry #AltonSterling
360 · Jun 2016
Escape from Liberty
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About my new book // Escape from Liberty

Birth is the experience we have, witness, and feel that is closest to where evolution rests. If it could be measured. I think the way birth is experienced and the proximity around it is the most important focus when discussing ontology and evolution.

“Escape from liberty,” refers not just to the getting out of the psychology of liberty but reshaping how that has affected what birth means in society.
A society can only be as good as it functions around birth. Since liberty has shaped what birth means in America from its beginning. It has a lot to do with why the reality of freedom is misunderstood.

Actual freedom and the possibility to experience it has been preserved by those that brought it with them. The African women taken from Africa preserved the evolved function of birth in American Society.
Liberty in terms of birth means that it is the defining authority on society. In evolution birth is the defining authority of society.
By proving that birth is not meant for liberty by escaping slavery to freedom, African American women gave a template to escape liberty and experience freedom.

The absurdity and genocidal acceptance of declaring liberty while birth for some humans has become artificially designed for slavery is unacceptable. Any American should understand what this means in terms of our sustainability or evolution as humans.
This should be understood more and funded more than any “going green” resource conflict crisis generation.
riot fighting
don’t use your hands
elbows and knees
only
strictly
very strict
only fast funning starts
no stationary strikes
recoil fast
and frantic
but strike fast and steady
follow through
dedicate
355 · Aug 2016
a choice in the flesh
if the emanations of the motive were noticed
one would be completely still
defined
uniform
a choice in the flesh
intricate doubt
354 · Jul 2016
Tardis
the militant genocidal imaginations
from a far away place
that know not what it is like
to sustain its cruelty of behaviour
while at the same time
in love with the feeling of ****
black women
black women
friction
and not their wives
expecting a good society
while they **** people
in their backyard
and then eat a really silent dinner
and then a camera crew rolls up
for the latest hit TV show
"Most Creepy Narcassistic ******* Psychos Ever"
and is filming threw the window
time lapse
time travel
in a Tardis
like what the **** are we watching?
is this really where whiteness comes from?
354 · Jan 2017
consolation
Is love professional
in a professional way
I love these children
helping them
understanding
how to heal their trauma
noticing the times they can learn
from the times to just listen
and how important this distinction is
I used to miss my family
then I missed my friends
now
like hot coals glow
on my heart
society breathes on
After I awake
struggle to be
before them
I only miss my daughter
that is where
the emptiness
where my heart
once was beating
but most of all
I miss myself
before I was forced
to miss my daughter
like this
consoling children
with their pains and traumas
due to the negligience
of a Child Trafficking Agency
while CTA/DCF forces me
to trust them
with my heart
that which is a heart
that is the most powerful heart
they have ever tempted to remove
353 · Jul 2016
modern native
modern native
taking a drive
to console with the eagles
recapturing my breathing
with pinched off
thai basil flowers
first thing in the morning
eating enough Tulsi basil leaves
from the garden
pinched flower breathing
in for 6 seconds
yes a lot of trauma out there
hold for 7 seconds
invisible to recuperate
8 seconds out
everything is perfect
modern native
reminding people
to stop not being human
there is an answer
a cure
a choice
what is the difference
of being white
and being human
when is it that human
became white?
how and why?
oops
apology
modern native
it is one thing to assume
and think
all the natives have been killed
but you must not forget what
natives know about our breathing
and what natives
know about our future
modern native
350 · Aug 2016
frozen struggle
stay creatively fierce
time is frozen struggle
misunderstood memory
the other destroyed
by its own compassion
for movement
339 · Jan 2017
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living
reincarnating
on the literary edge
voting with my language
vocation
refuse to reincarnate into it again
This is the chance
one time to spend death
no more lifetimes later
English the etymological disaster
government education
called the anatomy of whiteness
warns us all
"you will never get out!
You will never find where you came from!”
338 · Aug 2016
history of killing sprees
neon ****
haunted tobacco
vengeance of cotton
broken words
purpose of procreation
decapitated capitalism
334 · Aug 2016
soul
poetry is none other than life
people appreciate in public
the poems that are abstractly nature
more than the ones that describe
how to arise from oppression
its sad  but comforting
because I also like nature
and wish
I could solely
along with my black family
just be human
333 · Aug 2016
its official!!
I am officially decomposing
you can keep my composure
I do not need it anymore
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333 · Aug 2016
missed
you’ll make a great addition to the stars
telescopes wont miss you
you’ll guide the travelers
keep the compasses steady
its already happened
if it will
spill your heart out
why not?
its all you got
its just not enough for them
they want to see it out
to believe it
pumping blood on the floor
ignore it while its in your body
they want to see the lungs you breathe with
the air that made your words
the hair the birds made their nests
the tests that shows whose best
the energy you spend so you can rest
undress and shine in supple eyes
surprise the moment
with random sighs of relief
sheath your weapon
let out your grief
stay creatively fierce
confident
time is frozen struggle
misunderstood memory
the other
is destroyed
by its its own
compassion for movement
empathy might
even step in
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332 · Jun 2017
sometimes
sometimes
have to
need to
stop and look at
your barefoot prints
sit
breathe more than ever
and focus on one
then it is the moment
to relax into many
330 · Apr 2017
intimacy
the wear and tear of intimacy
sometimes referred to as love
sometimes referred to as war
329 · Oct 2016
now entering freedom
I had this exponential context
a story of persuasion
force
vulnerability saved and documented
in one book
two years of writing
focused beyond comparison
shattered standard of comparison
destroyed status quo
every word
every sentence
inviting
demanding
forcing
a new psychology
to continue
to sustain
to evolve
its out of my hands
its in the publishers
“Escape from Liberty”
black women gave birth to American society
not until the white supremacist version of freedom
referred to as “liberty”
is escaped
can the depth of American freedom
be related to or appreciated
understood
a perspective that is valid
means something too the world
means something to me
here tonight
us
I will read some of my poetry
that I have written about keeping integrity
while having interactions with society
after finishing my last book
“Escape from Liberty”
the freedom and adaptability of poetry
conquering a tendency to struggle
with traditions and what I know is right
I know what we have left
and its not what most will tell you
it has improved my life significantly
evolved into a rogue poet
fancy
fresh
fantastic
nothing to lose
nothing to prove
sincerely correct
maniacal vengeance
fascinated
fading
disappearing
into music
unfathomable patterns of movement
inescapable desire
now entering freedom
now entering freedom
repeat
328 · Jan 2017
jazz and the vet
my father
black jazz musician
left America
to other countries
like France
Denmark
for respect
while my friends
fathers
for the status quo
of whiteness
went to **** people
in other countries
for a little money
328 · Jun 2017
ethnic on the mic
ethnic on the mic
what is your ethnicity?
“white”
is not an ethnicity
it is a social construct
that means “not a slave”
meant to bring indentured servitude
back into the liberty of white supremacy
caucasian is a made up fairy tale
how can I trust whiteness
when it cares only about not having
anything to do with slavery ?
it thinks it can stop the dialogue
the freedom fight
simply by declaring it is white
that is insane and dissociative
because a very thin layer of reflection
covers everything
and you give it the depth
that you think it should have
saying you are white has no depth
has no soul
has no heritage
no lineage
just the desperation of distancing
oneself from the devastation
genocidal process that it has demanded
no one in the world
other than Americans
can smile and say they are white
then expect silence and acceptance
because only in America were people
forced to be on the white team
and brainwashed to think being white
is an ethnicity
like french
Dutch
German
Swedish
Uneducated nonsense
unacceptable
326 · Jul 2016
Miscegeny and me...
miscegeny not misogyny
this is why you don’t know me
it was illegal to understand me
now it is allowed for me to be
nothing
tolerated by language
meant to keep me apart
it is obvious
that it was never intended
for me
to meet
myself
in such an intimate way
325 · Aug 2016
boo!!
the psychosis of absolute freedom
possesses your alarm clock
you press snooze
existentialism is hiding behind the next corner
in the darkness
waiting to scare the **** out of you
324 · Apr 2019
Rwandan Orchid
Rwandan orchid
I will not let reality
Take over my positive imagination
In all seriousness
Logic and peace
We must rebel
Against our own desires
Of manufactured comfort
With smiles
Budding sweet tears
Affirmative genocide
Apathetic anonymous
320 · Jul 2016
allowance...afforded
ever since black women have been allowed to play tennis
with white associates
against white acquaintances
humans that think they are white
for more than 3 seconds
at a time
have been allowing themselves
to be black more
and equality is a ****** ace
black tennis was right on
317 · Dec 2017
evolutionary cliche
roses are red
violets are blue
computers are great
but I miss you
I forget everything
when she is tightly wrapped around me
I around her
the simplification of social excess
that usually protrudes
long into the night
just before blazing orange dawn
I realize
like the last possible realization
that life is desperation
happiness is surrender
311 · Jun 2016
false advertisement
If you want to know the audience
you must have processed the social construction of race
or else you might as well be johnson and johnson
white toned band-aids
nothing but advertisements
warnings
in newspapers
“Bleach your skin to look white with this product”
“straighten your hair with this product”
I just wanted to read the news
is whiteness being sued yet for false advertisement?
309 · Aug 2016
perception
you are the hollow version of perception
309 · Sep 2016
silver silence
impostor of origins
indulging failure
obscuring love
fantasizing friction
glory of absence
in the beginning
was silence
308 · Aug 2016
what if?
What if my lover was an abolitionist?
How would our child differ?
Would my nights be less risky targeted by dangerous urges?
My revolutions of mind would not be so lonely
They could come out at our dinner dates
They could hang around with my family at the play ground
Protect our fatherhood
306 · Jun 2017
depth
everything you see
infinitely thin layer
reflecting
you give it depth
and violently strip it away
importance
from everything else
but your focus
305 · Dec 2017
guru
i can feel you
under my skin
within its infinitely thin
casing of light
every time
i want to be inside you
moving around inside
finding everything
intimately outside
darkness
pour
into light
guru
304 · Sep 2016
quietly
Not so sure
not so sure
they know what is what
what they do
that is for what people see
them doing
what they do for being human?
not so sure they think there is a difference
how much of what we do
is for the perspective of others
smothering originality
with a pillow
and shoot!!
303 · Mar 2017
owls wondering
owls are wondering
why the **** aren’t they seeing
turning their heads all around
heads spinning 360’s!
missing the destruction in their wake
owl says what the ****
how are those stiff necked *****
humans
not seeing this wake of destruction
is crashing down on them
they just look ahead
as if there is something there
still organic
surviving their destruction
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