Tuesday January 23rd @ 20:03:32
here alone at the starbucks little Tokyo, my ihss worker abandoned ship… so hard to find a good commitment that also knows what they are doing.
Skid row is killing me… wishing i could become a successful artist, and maybe famous for the love that i share, wish to share, try to share.
” will art for food ”
a child
the ripe old age of 9
bought milk and bread
for family instead
child labor money
pulling weeds & washing chalk boards
he chose to labor
eventually there was 8 others and a mom and dad
wish-me sandwiches,
two pieces of bread and wish you had something in between them, and sometimes wishing we had bread
i did not need anybody to ask me, i am an observationalist
I did no art then, but was it not art to see
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I will work my ass off
i know you think i am lazy
i will work my ass off
i know you think i am lazy
i will work my ass off
i lost 19 pounds
i don’t know if any of it was in my ass
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as a teen i did too
worked my ass off
skinny with that athletic body
but not in all my high school classes
manual labor, was known, and done
cross country, nailed it
for others and my family
tirelessly
worked
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USMC
Corporal
less than 2 years – meritorious
do you know the Marine Corps?
if you do, you hear me
110%
not only to this Nation
but still to family as well
2½ years, at least half, or the eentire paycheck to family
gifts too
family is everything
family was everything until it wasn’t
i always, they never
not in the time of need
just words that bleed
like the fickle “I love you”
for them a tool of manipulation
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work hard at understanding
in eyes of a difficult and complex reality
but not stopping
the hard work at making sure i give my natural love as much as possible
work hard to not let all that has been and is sinister to thieve
the love i am
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physical and psychological disabilities deplete my energy
and today
i work my ass off
at staying alive
art in maintenance therapy
my self medication, my drug
ART & POETRY & LET ME ADD A LOVER TOO
wellness of self so i can try to find that oxygen mask
to be all i can to our Veteran family, and civilians, of course, who advocate for us
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will art for food
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my art is that work
my poetry too
do you see the beauty from the destruction that a soul is inflicted with
not my own doing, but the vile not yet on file
i call them criminals
you may see them differently, as well as the apathetic
i work my ass off to not be apathetic
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will art for food
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so all my art to you
my poetry – not this one though
maybe
for the speak to the soul
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http://tinyurl.com/on8-29artBUY
http://tinyurl.com/HIREaMARINEartist
http://tinyurl.com/SkidRowExtraction
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kenneth james 