out of the box/ruminations – the video

by Sumayyah on 2012/05/15

out of the box

open my eyes to blue skies
beating heart
and thoughts of
revolution
burn the blood of dragons
sip a little tea that’s colored green
with lemon and ginseng
and clean my ankh ring
laughin’ and thinkin’
they know nothin’ about me
cuz my TV don’t get
channels of stupidity
cultural conditioning
ain’t softened my brain
surrounded by books
making plans
for the school after school
history lessons
Most High’s blessings
what it means to be
black and red and white blue
cover my head
wear all black too
got a cross and skull
and a choker full of studs
jilbab in the closet
a little Marley on my wall
a Bible on the table
next to my Hendrix cd
not learnin’ voodoo tarot
i think it’s learnin’ me
ain’t no box big enough
to contain all of my dreams

ruminations

hold fast
to those dreams
that sprout knees and crawl
away from you
to go and
die

willful ignorance
isn’t that a sin?
or should be
i imagine
because it gets abused
knocked down
run over
tied up
hung
and set aflame
and we wonder
where
the children get it from

dancing and dodging and
ducking and weaving
bullets and loaded insults
and backhanded compliments
as if
i can not
appreciate
words fixed to a page
in my spare time
without trying
to learn a skill
or memorize commands
in a language i will never
understand

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100 Books!

by Sumayyah on 2012/05/07

Here is a list of the last 100 books I read, including manga, between January 22, 2012 and yesterday, May 6, 2012. For ratings and author information, you can click HERE to see the list. I think.

 

The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
House of Leaves
A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10)
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
Welcome to Bordertown
American Son
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
God’s War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)
Heart-Shaped Box
The Essential Bordertown
Let the Right One In
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 7
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 6
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 5
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 4
Godchild, #2
Godchild, #1
Godchild, #7
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 2
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 3
Godchild, #3
Godchild, #8
Godchild, #4
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo, Volume 1
Godchild, #5
Sharp Objects
The Isle of Blood (The Monstrumologist, #3)
Slaves of the Shinar
Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 5
Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters
Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 1
Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 2
Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 3
Grand Guignol Orchestra, Vol. 4
Dark Souls
Half Blood Blues
The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist, #2)
Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in Us Women’s History
The Last Holiday
In Her Footsteps: 101 Remarkable Black Women from the Queen of Sheba to Queen Latifa
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
The Spirit Eater (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #3)
The House of Discarded Dreams
The Spirit Rebellion (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #2)
The Healing
Hexed (Iron Druid Chronicles, #2)
The Wolf Gift
The Alchemy of Stone
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)
The Rook
Fire Baptized (Habitat, #1)
Monoceros
Futureland
Blood Lite II: Overbite
The Spirit Thief (The Legend of Eli Monpress, #1)
Death Note: Another Note (Novel)
Rage (Riders of the Apocalypse, #2)
Hounded (Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)
Among Thieves (Tales of the Kin, #1)
Money Boy
Emo Boy Volume 1: Nobody Cares about Anything Anyway, So Why Don’t We All Just Die?
Blood Lite (Includes: Dark Hunter, Related books, #9; The Dresden Files, #10.1, Women of the Otherworld, #8.1)
A Book of Tongues
Bone Dance
The Bone Palace (The Necromancer Chronicles, #2)
The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
Wraeththu
The Wood Queen (The Iron Witch, #2)
Jimi Hendrix: The Stories Behind Every Song
Bob Marley: The Stories Behind Every Song
Lightbringer
Faery Tales and Nightmares
A Companion to Wolves (Iskryne World, #1)
Hex and the Single Girl
Prized (Birthmarked, #2)
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Tempest (Tempest, #1)
Planesrunner (Everness #1)
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
Lord of the White Hell – Book One
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #1)
Corambis (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #4)
The Mirador (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #3)
Yakuza Moon: The True Story of a Gangster’s Daughter
Out
Swear (Swoon, #2)
La mécanique du coeur
The Virtu (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #2)
Divine Misfortune
Unleashed (Wolf Springs Chronicles, #1)
The Kingdom of Gods (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3)
1Q84
Of Blood and Honey (The Fey and the Fallen, #1)
Pretend You Love Me
Adventures of the Karaoke King
Real World
The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)
Unforsaken (Banished, #2)
Melusine (Doctrine of Labyrinths, #1)
Angry Women in Rock

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war cry/things fall apart – the video

May 7, 2012

war cry they will come while we’re peaceful they will rise from the dark they will catch us sleeping tangled up in our dreams there’s a war we need to be ready for can’t walk down the street no more without them watchin’ me houndin’ me checkin’ where i’m goin’ they know my friends and [...]

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Shop Of Horrors – the video

May 1, 2012

it’s kind of disturbing

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say what 4/30/12

April 30, 2012

And the final Poem a Day for National Poetry Month is: say what it’s the end of the road and here we say farewell can’t say that i had a good time can’t say i’m ecstatically happy or else i’d be lyin’ can’t say what i won’t say i’m running out of truth so i [...]

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lullaby 4/29/12

April 29, 2012

hush, child
nightmares are never true dreams, love
worry not your little head, dear

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show & tell 4/28/12

April 28, 2012

war of gods and sins
praise of devils where
angels fear to tread and
make amends
for forsaking their roles

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unspoken 4/27/12

April 27, 2012

..kiss my sleeping face and stalk
the passion i’ve set free..

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insight 4/26/12

April 26, 2012

insight wave of cold blankets me chilling my desire hate the right hate the wrong float above the middle path choose a lover from the scorned and broken pick a fight with the elite class the richest man the ruler of my nightmare pray to every god that i can name offer tribute to the [...]

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wax and wane 4/25/12

April 25, 2012

she has no
past and no future
no precious dreams

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