Plus Shipping And Handling

Plus Shipping And Handling

They call it “The American Dream,”
and this terminology has crept its way
into every single aspect of our lives.
A reverie and sweet fantasy want suffice
no this motherf*c#er has to be a pitch dark
rapid eye investment kind of deal, your arm
in a sling, some sleep spouse beating type thing.
Total free fall with a politician movie star
and a three titty prostitute kind of experience

Back up on Fredrick and Briggs, outside Mr. Lee’s
we used to call it craps, looking for a lucky throw
either way you had to lay down before you got down
wouldn’t no other move to play in them gambles
for the goal to be achieved you had to buy in
adopt the nature of the crowd and the atmosphere.

I could never get over the clack of shook black and white
or the fact that a single one would mean death
or how you never had to see the snake slither concrete
in order to see its eye roll every now and again.

I never liked the use of the hood phrase tax that ass
when the game seemed out of hand for that one cat
the self appointed authority on the rules and such
or how it was always synonymous with violence
anger fights and eventually that exact same meaning
given to a single one of those pieces that bring frenzy

I will never understand inept need for injurious acts
while dreaming of ways to double the rent money
we are blessed to have in the beginning of the cycle.

What the hell is shipping and handling?
and why is it that nowadays its so high?

JDW©2012 7/15-j3(Jarriot, Johnny& Jerry)
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