The Rent Is Too Damn High - Armand Hammer

Section 8

But hall plush with piff and sour grape

Wet cough through thin wall

Keep me up late

The man in 3C is dying of cancer

Told me straight-up

I admire his candor

Sent him to his fate like Taliban commander

They sell death off my steps

Necromancers

Woodwinds play for the local Jo Jo Dancer’s

Woods in the wind

Plastic cups Seagrams & Fanta

Till police shut down the Party

Black Panthers

Retreat into the jungle

I watch through peepholes on the humble

Like I got points on the bundle

True self secret like Rumple/stiltskin keep it

Every man for himself when the long arm reaches

Cassette tape Nkrumah speeches

Face-creased

Streetcorner preacher screeches into loudspeaker

I can hear my neighbors fucking

Calling on jesus/Christ

Radiator cold as ice but outside

The heat stay on like pilot light

They grew strong outta spite

(Elucid)

Modest brownstone sad ghost in the hallway

I’m doing the right thing all the wrong ways

More haze crushed as the song fade

Breaking dawn

Im plotting on long range

Change came

Broke niggas

Affording pain

Lean protein stashed in parka pocket

Fishers market

Down a couple on the humble kept his boots polished

Full time college

Loan mileage

Still vibrant

5 bill black barrel jerk chicken down on prospect

Hogs breath

Red and blue

6 pointed stars and suwoos

Crude jewels

Can’t tell who’s who

Platoon move

I’m thru and thru

Acrid fumes

Blunts pipes and burnt spoons

Aunties uncles cousins thrice removed

For whom the bell dings

12 string guitar gently weeps

Supreme kings

Wayward out outta reach

Black jesus on the main line

Give a ring tell him what u need

Seed crackle brown tree steams

Fiends vanish scene when that caprice sweep

Indeed indeed

I can hear my neighbors fucking

Calling on jesus christ

Radiator cold as ice but outside

The heat stay on like pilot light

They grew strong outta spite

Shunned the beast and kept the old ways like Mennonites