This consolidation of music is an invitation to find fuel with me. In 2017, my most refueling hobby while living in the Pacific Northwest was writing music, during that time I picked up my guitar and wrote the prelude to an neo-soul album I didn’t even know existed, a project destined for release March 2023. […]
As a Revolutionary american AbolitionistI have too many friends who at electionAre just trying diss andIts hard to believeNo 20-somthings other than meCan see anything worth to redeemIn this broken democracyThis hopeless democracyThis choking democracyHow many of usHave to sigh “I can’t breathe”Before we choose to take the lead? The ballot boxIs just another WEAPONTo […]
Written by Vincent Sherrill incarcerated in WADOC, Monroe Correctional Complex This is not a CORONATIONfor some old dusty ass monarchremnant of an oppressive pastand no College team will be CrownedNCAA Tournament Champions. This is more like a CORONACHa dedication poem or psalma platinum songsung by angelic cherubimas families place gold coinstoll for the boatmanfor those […]
Can we really visualize freedom with a limited point of view?When it’s normal to feel free in condition imposed on you.When did freedom become a clause, a cause for a certain sect, race or class?Something bestowed, a privilege or a formal accommodation? Freedom isn’t convenience,A mutual acclimation between persons or groups,Nor is it a means […]
Since Fall of last year every week I’ve walked past this construction site watching the illegal project take place. Two years ago I participated in a protest against the construction of the jail outside of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s home. Protesters were in shock over the funding of the $210 million project after the $74 […]
Throat burning, stomach churning I lose the place in my mind As I hear the sounds Wee-woo, wee-woo Constantly reminds Me I’m not free, I’m jail bound. Looking straight ahead As my heart pounds I contemplate, “When can I relinquish this case?” Every time I feel that desperate belly ache An ache that […]
My people built this land After your stripped it Of all it had known With a genocidal attack On native people’s homes This land is not “the land of immigrants” Because a passport is not A bill of sale Yet you continue to enforce That misleading tale From this land you extracted The original people […]
Blue skies topple As clouds shift into shadow hunters, Robing the sun’s reflection of the blood moon. Winds breath a stale stench of Deferred Dreams. As fog lingers in the arms of natures weave, Senescence slowly envelope youth as a snail dries out. Fleeting sanity into nothingness up empty pages. Wandering. Purposely seeking freedom in […]
God Gave Us Go(o)d Hair: So that we may understand and be aware After wearing a beautiful set of Nubian twists for two months I sat down around 2pm on a sunny Tuesday afternoon to finally take down the protective style. While taking down the twists in sections I slathered deep conditioner over my strands […]
The underground secluded town With a lack of sunlit windows Give you away You can never trick me With the fancy vocabulary and complex wordplay Although they guard and demean Those uniformed people with the rings of keys Sure I’ll call them “staff” Because I guess they are employees The 4 sided cell With the […]