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Day 167: Dahlak - Who's Coming With Me???

So who's coming with me, huh?
Who wants a piece of the action?
I know it sounds crazy but...

this shit right here...

it's like crack in the streets right now
i mean, it's even better!
you can't even have the crack in the streets
without it.

it'll be like selling air
no better.
it'll be like stealing air
from people who are selling air
and selling it to the people for a lower price.
we giving back to the community and shit

like some robin hoods
hooded up
robbing the suburbs.
looking for signs of excess gas supply
like freshly mowed lawns.
looking for gas tanks that still open from the outside.

all we need is a gas-sucking-vacuum kinda thing
and we're set.

we meet around 2, 3 o'clock
with our little gas guzzler
let's call it the hand held hummer.

yeah that's it.

and we'll drive ar-
no.
we'll walk around
searching every sidewalk
every driveway
waiting to find any car
suv, van, truck, tank
with a tank
vulnerable for the taking
thank them for not believing
a muthafucka would get that desperate
to do some shit like this.
just a little bit tho.
from a lot of people.

but that not's it.
we start up a fucking market.
craigslist, ebay, my momma's garage
i don't give a fuck
we could move this shit by the ton.

$1.25 for gas!
$1.10!
m'fuckas'll think they died and went to the nineties
they'll buy the regular shit
get robbed and buy our shit
just to feel like the gas pump ain't going up they're ass
everytime they get a full tank
we shouldn't feel like we just got raped.

you see, the E still stands for empty
but the F is starting to stand for funds diminished.
or simply FUUUUUUUUCK.

yeah yeah i know you wanna talk we stealing shit and all
but listen
someone gotta give big business some competition
besides arco and costco
the atm fee will give them back the .45 cents they saved you.

i'm talking about real change
to put the change back in our pocket.

i mean, what if we organized on some oceans 12
did it all in one night
we'll have enough supply to hurt they sales.
for a week.
but fuck it.
give them hell.
make shell feel the burn.
chevron ain't losing money.
the owners of 76 ain't foreclosing on they home.
ain't waiting for the economy to pick up
picking up unmployment checks.

i'm just sick of feeling like a victim
of wondering if the bully gon' take my lunch money today
lets fight.
lets fight and lose
but lets say we tried

my patience is on empty
my life on the line
i'm exhausted
pipe smoking
hoping for the right night.

so who's coming with me?
whooooooo's coming with me????

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