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My Boyfriend's Afro Pick

Here's a poem about your comb,
and how your pants don't fit.
Clearing my eyes with Bosch & Laomb
Fake gold chains, and pointless shit.

Big Black Afro
SUV with a TV
Plump tan HO's in bikinis.
Fucking my hat off sideways.
Oh rap me your sob story
About how you've worked for your
glorified bona fide hoop ride
and your crib designed
by a VJ from MTV that
thinks you are celebrity.

You rap about the struggles to find
a banana yellow FILA jump
suit to wear to the Grammys.
Flossing your kicks in thousand
dollar pajamies. Your teeth are
gold, my illusion brown, even
Prince thinks you are a clown.

Merchant, sell your dreams short
Coco butter, pool side creams.
This is what Ebony has made
its America.

My nephew's so white
he hates us because
he was born with the guilt.
He wants to be a black
rapper, and dapper, and
Bobby Brown his bitch
with a switch and paint
the town Miami like
Will Smith in a fast boat
with a play station two.
And a trained goat that
forecasts the weather.
"Ten more years of shitty
evaporated recycled
antiblack music by black
nonmusicians".

DJ Nelly Jelly and MC AssHat
did an entire album about a
filthy rich wombat that had the nerve
to wear a band-aid on a face zit
with a preference for rear ending
greasy oven mitts. Don't you get it?
Life is only about bitches and money
and picking your afro with an ad
by Nabisco about how Tupac disco'd,
and started a revolution of pure
Authentic greed that is even worse
than white America, because it
only cares about the way it looks
before it goes to the club to dub.

Get over it.
And get that stupid fucking comb
out of your hair. I mean do you
realize how utterly assanine that
comes across as, what in the
fuck is that supposed to
symbolize, your personal
awareness of hygiene?

You would think Bob Marley,
or twenty years of perfect jazz,
and Duke Ellington could fix this,
but I have some serious doubts
about what rap music's about,

Today.
It certainly has no bearing for
anyone that wakes up and
actually has to go to work and
be relatively human.

Author notes

I wrote this because I'm sick of cheesey rap videos, and wigging altogether.
Written March 13th, 2004

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  • horus8 gold member
    October 31, 2005
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    Sorry pat, I just got out of re-hab I have 25 days clean and I'm swinging at the fences, please forgive me, I have issues.


  • Patrick Walz
    October 31, 2005
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    Relax, honkus8, I'm German actually, but if I were black, I'd be Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He's my favorite "good negro". You'll never catch that guy wearing a pick in his hair.

    By the way, I forgot to thank you for the silver trophy in your last contest.

    **Holds up silver horus8 trophy now adorned with random bling-bling and "P-PHUNK" in gold on the side**

  • horus8 gold member
    March 28, 2005
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    Who's to say I didn't

    allpoetry.com/Poem/1129561


  • The Pipers Call
    March 28, 2005
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    while you're at it, you should make a poem for all those overgrown puerile i wanna be blink three chord no talent nobody understands what its like to be me, its so hard to be a highskooler hacks out there
    Edited on Mar 28, 2:41 p.m. because '...again'.

  • FaceValue
    November 4, 2004
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    I read this last year -
    Ran across it again today...
    I think you should add to it,
    although times haven't changed too much -
    What about the good reverend Jackson and
    his pals ?

  • FaceValue
    March 20, 2004
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    I believe you called a spade



    a spade.

    What about coolio Emminem ?
    He wants to be so black, I
    think he might really be.
    They say "classic music", and it goes together.
    Using the words music and rap together is a giant
    oxymoron and should be against the law.
    Loved the comb thing, dude, but wanted to see
    some funky-assed underwear clinging about 8 inches
    above the fallin'-down-pants-show-my-ass thing....
    Good Job..


  • horus8 gold member
    March 17, 2004
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    So you can spout your afro american retort to the OBVIOUS yet I can't reply? Figures, it must be so difficult being black much more so than being just alive Queenie, perhaps you should write Brandy and Disney and you guys could do an ice show about it? Oh, and feel free to IM me because I'm just that fucking interested, can't you tell?


  • queenie
    March 17, 2004
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    freedom of speech is a glorious right,but sometimes it would help if the person weren't so inclined to get across their point of view only and state the facts.you are downing rap because someone you know is a wigger,which is as horrible phrase as nigger,yes the bleeping n word.rap is a form of expression like any other form.it's not particularly my favorite form,but i can respect the creativeness in some of it.no,rap is not crap.the contents of some rap is crap.it's a money-making industry for all colors.this write of your is full of bigotry.it's nothing more than a rant.don't bother to im me to tell me how far off base i am or that i don't know what i am talking about.as a black woman who has been the target of ridicule in a lot of this rap thing,i know.i respect art.techno rock,head banging rock,grass roots,etc,it's all a form of expression.so rant about it if you must,but don't knock others form of free expression.


  • March 16, 2004
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    Cool cool, etc, and he knows it

    Yeah, rocking actually. I don't know why, but there is something about your poetic voice that makes me want to smack you and/or bring you down a notch while at the same time having sex with you and your pet wombat in a threesome of abject shame. I mean, the very stereotyped smartass generic rap I could hate with a vengeance, and then you get a trained goat that forecasts the weather, and yeah ... who could not forgive that? Even the fucking white links: I mean if you're that modest, why not have your whole poem white on white? I dare ya?


  • poetryality silver member
    March 15, 2004
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    I agree with putting them all in the boat! lol they make no difference to me. It's all by design, whoever want to play with the pattern, just choose a place to mix into the fabric, I got real shit to attend to, you know, like remembering my line for the play.


  • horus8 gold member
    March 15, 2004
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    Wasps drink tea and live in the Hamptons.
    Jews drink manashevitz and say good shabbas.
    two utterly different creatures, but in my book, put
    them all on a boat with the rappers and press 'boom'.


  • horus8 gold member
    March 15, 2004
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    So do rich black men. And Rich Jews actually do most of the promoting. Do you know the difference between a Wasp and a Jew?


  • poetryality silver member
    March 15, 2004
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    It's all 'bout the dolla,
    if you ain't down with that
    then you ain't got no real holla.

    It's all 'bout bitches and hoe's,
    if you ain't feelin' them real vapors,
    then who really knows.

    It's all 'bout gettin' out of the jecks
    Flasin' the bling bling
    Stackin' special affects

    Puffin'up, dealin'
    Smokin' the chronic
    Superficial
    Surreal
    A new language
    Ebonics

    Somebody probably laughed
    At slave songs in the field
    But if you ain't been in the skin I'm in
    You can't know the real deal

    We can criticize
    Demoralize
    And say what we will
    But this is the good old USA
    Rich white men
    Promote this kind of skill

    Imagine if a rapper
    tried to push consciousness
    and reality

    He'd be forced
    out of business
    Just another fatallity




  • PseudoVoid
    March 14, 2004
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    "DJ Nelly Jelly and MC AssHat
    did an entire album about a
    filthy rich wombat that had the nerve
    to wear a band-aid on a face zit
    with a preference for rear ending
    greasy oven mitts."

    I absolutly love that part....ah, that makes me laugh so much. I love how there is just a continues flow of awareness and how you're thinking throughout the entire thing. Geeze, what a wonderful write...
    ~Amanda~


  • Nyx Iscariot
    March 13, 2004
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    sounds peachy to me there sweets.

    N...


  • horus8 gold member
    March 13, 2004
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    herb ritz is so yuppy puppy white cocky. The true negretto does not partake of the abercrombie.

  • Nyx Iscariot
    March 13, 2004
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    but what about abercrombie and fitch?


    hmmm?

    N...


  • joshuadobbs
    March 13, 2004
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    Good job.you can still be a real cod but i like the poem.

    You rap about the struggles to find
    a banana yellow FILA jump
    suit to wear to the Grammys.

    Good Good stuff


  • horus8 gold member
    March 13, 2004
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    That's okay, I have a perfect memory. Remember when you saw me on late night tv.? yes, that was me, but I don't watch late night tv... So tell me, was I hot? See I play scrabble and write poetry, what are you doing up that late?


  • MuseStalker
    March 13, 2004
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    excellent, excellent...blah, blah, blah :P

    You are either totally mad...or a genius...or both. (Yeah, I know what you're thining.) Your rant is well understood this time....at least, I think so. Who knows? Only the shadow...and that ancient egyptian god...eternity on it's ear.
    Ah...give me Billie Holiday and Count Bassie and even Lena Horne, that cafe au laite crooner. Yup...rap is crap. Geez...I don't feel comfortable when we agree. Oh, yeah...thanks for sharing this excellent poem.


  • Nam
    March 13, 2004
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    I can honestly say, you pissed me off. But, not as much as I already am with an inane idiot of this site.

    But, I digress. I like people who piss me off (except for the inane idiot he is actually getting on my last nerves) because if they can take the time and piss me off, well, hell, they must have written something or said something worth saying.

    Tho, if the 'boyfriend' wishes to be a wigger, what business is it of anyone? If it makes him happy, why take it away from him?

    Anyways, it was well written, but, it did piss me off.



  • cvillelisa
    March 13, 2004
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    have i told you lately that i love you....willie?
    this is insane on the membrane
    now listen, i spent the better part of my life in the 80's with a can of aqua net by my side at all times...


  • Reno Jaymes
    March 13, 2004
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    yeah


  • horus8 gold member
    March 13, 2004
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    Early rap was much better, the chronic was the last great album but all of the stuff before that was great, cypresshill, early nwa, snoopdog, early stuff like toneloc, kidnplay, and djjazzy jeff and the fresh prince, amused the hell out of me too, but now it's all reminiscent of glam rock hair bands and spandex from the eighties, in other words, hopelessly laughable.
    Edited on Mar 13, 6:11 p.m. because ''.


  • Reno Jaymes
    March 13, 2004
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    And what a dick...to make the link color white...lol...kinda sounds like somethin' I'd do really...


  • Reno Jaymes
    March 13, 2004
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    But now that I think about it...I kinda like some rap...I usually don't like music that requires no talent and that sounds all the same...but there is some that makes me smile....

  • Reno Jaymes
    March 13, 2004
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    This is somewhat true....I enjoyed it....


  • March 13, 2004
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    UM THIS IS WEIRD WHICH IS WHY I LIKE IT LOTS SO GREAT

    ANGELWANABEE24 AKA DEPRESSEDANGEL


  • March 13, 2004
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    Great. Bull's eye.
    Edited on Mar 13, 5:58 p.m. because ''.


  • kjd
    March 13, 2004
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    STANDING O!

    LOL--i hear you--still tryin to figger it out

    hmmm...review didn't go through, applause did

    you are talking truth here--message received, loud and clear

    BRAVA!

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