because this avenue ain’t always hot.
because my heartbeat is an essence that time forgot.
because two times two don’t have to be four.
because this lottery ticket ain’t the reason i’m poor.
because tap water should never be brown.
because i ain’t scared ‘a heights when i’m not lookin down.
because the arrival of spring means girls in new skirts.
because chicken wings don’t come in a bottle that squirts.
because my mama stopped smiling the day i was born.
because my pops can’t wait for my hair to be shorn.
because hip-hop’s all about primordial pain.
because there are people who have never seen rain.
because i still can’t afford to buy natural soap.
because i would never jettison my human telescope.
because a good gas station never dare closes.
because too many wack emcees are thumbin their noses.
because i saw a new birth, today, for hours.
because those neo-conningservatives have satanic powers.
because a volcano might never erupt.
because a coup from our side is always abrupt.
because i have never seen dawn in bangladesh.
because mayor berry liked sins of the flesh.
because rabbits like to snort when they thump.
because this glorious meadow onetime was a dump.
because glaciers are melting faster than rockets.
because evolution still exists in small pockets.
because this poem is a random distillation.
because my breathprints were scattered
at the dawn of creation.
