six-part poem
Esau
A six-part poem.
1/6 - Write as White
The first thing that I will write
is white.
I’m white.
Like a white light
in the bright night.
I’m a white knight.
I can write white,
and I can write light.
And you can write left.
And I can lose you.
But this ain’t Blue’s Clues.
This is Whose News?
I’m a writer.
I’m an all-nighter.
I’m a lover,
not a fighter.
2/6 - Mayor Man-Man Freestyle
I get that money.
You think it’s funny.
I make my check do a flip,
it’s like a bunny,
the way it’s hopping tummy.
I need that rummy tummy.
I need that funky monkey.
I need that stinky inky.
I need that pinky dinky.
And now, I’m in it now,
and I start grinning now.
It’s that percentage now,
it starts that trickle down.
That’s my man, man.
He’s the “man-man”
that’s ‘the man’, man.
I’m a manman.
That’s why I can’t stand
a handstand.
If I stood up on my hands,
I’d be upside down.
I don’t give a care,
’cause it’s my birthday now.
You stay on delay.
I stay ándale.
You go to Jupiter
I stay here
I don’t take no nothing from no noneornothing mayor.
If I was the mayor,
I would pass a hear
that says I stays the mayor.
I’m stayer the mayor.
Stayer the mayor since befare my declare.
Before I said it like before:
It’s befare.
That’s how it be
befare the mayor was me.
Disagree?
See my name
up in them records.
Don’t remember me.
Plus, I’m younger
than them records.
But it never mattered,
Before you had it backwards
Because I’ve been mayor
Befare before bore bare
That’s just how
I keep my money coming in.
And it’s ten thousand on my neck, so I start grinning.
It’s ten thousand dollars on my collar,
and I pop it in Bahamas.
Yo mama,
she calling mi llamo
telling me kick-start
her fundraiser.
Baby, I can’t give a care.
If I made mayor money,
I’d be the fucking mayor
Me’d be Edom E.
Major Money Mayor
Major Mayor Edom E.
Major Major Major Mayor
Talk about city laws,
making moves,
making frogs.
’Cause I been a prince, boy.
Ever since the switch, boy.
I just need the prints, boy.
If you ain’t gonna kiss me, then
I’ma need a couple dollars
for my Frog Town ballers.
Frog Tame Impala,
’cause it’s only me
band from the game.
I don’t have no feelings.
I might be Spider-Man,
I don’t read the newspaper.
That no use paper.
Wake up in the morning,
then I go to sleep befare.
Befare I was Spider-Man.
If I was Spider-Man,
I’d be the mayor.
Then spiders’d be mayors.
If I was the Spider-Mayor,
I’d spy to may hear
singing John Deer.
To hunt or not to hunt
To hear or not to hear
I’d have him play
a couple of singing john songs.
Singing John Deer
Digging Don Dare
Singing John Mayer
On guit-air
All deer steer cleer of dear John meer
Dear John Deer John Mayer John Dear
Don’t sound clear when the mayor ain’t there
Dear John Mayer John Sayer John Dear
Heel Me with your sing song
Healing magic tears
John Mayor John Dear
I am but a humble fear
A hunter raised without a spear
John Mayer John Deer
John Mayor John Dear
Many naysayers
sing a different song,
calling on my phone,
asking about the player.
Say his name is sing a ding
something, can’t remember,
that’s way befare
he was the mayor.
3/6 - Elbows and Toes
A cat on a table.
This is my fable.
If I was a kitty,
I would be in the stable.
But I is a cat
with a baseball bat,
and I like to eat
where the food is at.
I was in the trap.
I was cooking with my brother.
He was calling out
all the ingredients and other.
Motherfucker,
I’ma get the cover.
I’ma get the heat stick,
I’ma get the bluffer.
The way I move the work,
yeah, the way I move the water.
The way I move the weight,
yeah, the way I move the water.
And if you thank
that I stank,
change your nose, boy.
It’s not my clothes, boy.
I was in the trap, yeah,
before you knows, boy.
Elbows and toes, boy,
’cause you don’t nose, boy.
I had the jet landing out in
mi no, yo soy.
Yeah, me no hablo,
yo nombrespañol.
And my name Pablo.
I get the peso.
Make you say so.
It’s like toe may toe.
I’m red as hell, boy.
You cannot tell, boy,
I take my blood pressure medication
when I go on vacation.
Get your ladies acting so Jamaican.
You know what I’m saying.
I was in line at the DMV.
I was saying,
“Who gonna die for me?”
Don’t bleed everything that you read
Talk about my net,
five thousand dollars,
yeah, I put it on a bet,
put it on the Jets.
I don’t even check
Talk about New York.
That’s why I’m staying,
how I move with the work,
move with the water,
yeah, just like my father.
He always said
that he wish he had a daughter,
but I’m stepping out the house,
moving like my brother.
When he called my mother,
tell her that he love her.
But I keep walking around
this beat-up town.
I stay underground,
’cause my beats too loud,
and my swag is too tight.
If I was a writer,
I would write white.
If I was a white lighter,
I would make it night.
So I shine bright
in the skylight.
Move like I ain’t never had legs.
Move like it was your bed
for my breakfast.
Move like I was waking up up in Texas,
way bigger than my brothers
in the Lexus.
4/6 - Calling Babies Different Names
They ask about my T-shirt.
I said my feet hurt.
I got no meat up on my sneakers
I need a feature
right beside the bleachers
that says when the teamwork,
I’ma get seen first.
I feel like Kurt Cobain,
drinking green Gatorade,
calling babies different names.
And I got my wedding chain.
Same size, different game.
Different day, but the same way
I did it yesterday.
I’m going Ándele
Yo no hables;
Yo no soy tu comrade ay
Usted policía de nada
Yo no tardes
Yo no hables
Yo no soy tu mariachi
Yo no soy tu capuchino
Yo no soy tu ballerina
Correr es mi destino
Yo no soy un niño de nada
Yo soy a baby boy.
Yo soy un chimichanga.
Mi nombre está hundred.
I go by Hunter
I am the thing you put the tree under.
I do my tap dance.
That make you clap hands.
I got my rap friends,
but got nothing
on my back ends.
I stay patient
Say it like a waiter
moving with the paper,
times ten,
times your face.
If I was a Zuckerberg,
I would get my buttons turned.
I would drop the face first,
I don’t do no book burns.
Ten thousand dollars,
ten million children.
But I’m one civilian,
making a killing,
making a living,
making a drilling,
oil civilian.
If I was a critic
I’d be paid for shoes to fit in
If I was a pair of actors
I’d be cheered on blackword
Jeered-On Jimmy-Johns:
John Deer and
John Tractors
Dear John Tractors,
Fear John Factors,
Hear John, Sneer John
Beer John Backwards.
Dear John Deer,
John Ear,
John Actors,
Dear John Hair,
John Deer,
John Heir,
John Dear,
John Hear
John Mare,
Dear John Deer John here John Grinnin,
Dare John there John Hair John Lennon,
Jimmy gone where John Heir gone Sinnin
5/6 - My Baby
I been in the sweet shop
longer than the Garden.
I wake up,
make sure: all of my cars is starting.
I ride my bike to work cause
that’s my type of walkin.
Then I make the ice cream.
I scream for ice cream.
Ice cream for my screen.
Scrolling on my phone, boy.
You know how it go, boy.
2020 presidential candidately show, boy.
Making money flow, boy.
Throw it at the sto’, boy.
Back up at the candy shop.
You know how it go, boy.
Chocolate, little caramel,
I put it on my toes, boy.
Put the socks on over,
and that’s just how it go, boy.
You already know, boy
Now I step in slime.
Now I step in sugar.
I’m a lover
I’m a loser
I’m a looker.
I’m a top dog,
I’m a sly cat.
I’m in the rat race.
I got a flea bag.
Don’t play no blood games.
Where the disease at,
E’s at.
The Wingding Sheriff;
The Heir of Befariff;
Major Mayor Edom E.
At ease
I got 99 cents to my name, cuz.
Never was ashamed, cuz
I live at the bank, cuz.
2021,
I was running through my funds,
living on the street, living on the run.
Never been homeless
‘less I was home less.
But I ain’t been home, ‘less
I was at the home less
I run real fast.
Fast like a dash.
Car go fast when you make it gas.
Pop a couple tags just to show you where I’m at.
Make the broke hater mad, how I’m stepping in my swag.
I’ve been a calculator since
2000 and 8er
Right now or write later.
It’s whenever you say
that I’m a hater
I made my bands,
now I’m there.
John Mayer,
your tuhmayter.
And my baby is a prayer.
Wake up in the morning
and forget to say her.
Where’d you get
this big-ass tuhmayter?
I just called up the mayor.
I’m living in an L.A.-uh
underground lair.
But I know the mayor.
There’s no tax there.
And my cat is kinda fat,
but he sleep when he nap,
that’s okay, cuz he lay where he stay.
He’s a baby boy.
He’s a little cat.
She’s a girly girl.
She’s a black fur.
I’m a millionurr.
I’m successful.
I wear watches
off my dresser.
I look in the mirror.
Yeah, I really do.
I would tell you about it,
but I gotta tie my shoe.
If I had a million dollars,
I would be a million-dollar baller.
If I was million-dollar baller,
I would wish I was
a little bit taller.
A little bit taller,
yeah, that’s what we all want.
But I stays so small up,
and I’ve been above the law.
6/6 - Read as Red
I look at my shoes,
and I see twos of yous,
watching YouTube
while I hit snooze
on Blue’s Clues.
I look in the sky,
and I see two guys
in white ties,
playing sideswipe.
I read my name,
and I see the same thing
as yesterday.
So I change saying.
I’m in America.
But I wouldn’t marry, cuh,
unless I was a merry cuh.
So I got a skateboard.
Already paid for.
Say I had it way before—
Way before I was the may-or.
The mayor.
Was he before or befare?
No matter which way you stare,
he’s already there.
Been the mayor
since way back where.
That’s what I’m trying to sayman
The mayor in the wayman
Taking off my raybands
Taking off my pain meds
Taking off my latex
Taking off in plein-air
Feeling like the mayman
I’ll be okay man
The California caveman
Stayer on delay man
Arigato ne man
Get it how you came man
Everything I say man
For another day man
Everything I said
Read as Red,
Befare I was scared;
John Deer John Mayor,
Red as a prayer
Red Red read read redder