Okay, let me tell you about last night @ Mango’s.
(Deep Breath)
1. Came to the spot to send the homie Victoria off, she’ll be missed as she does a 1 year tour overseas in Asia.
2. Saw Raquel (complete with slightly over done tan)
3. Saw Raquel’s ass…will try to investigate whether or not ass is tanned as well
4. Ran into King Cipher/ Kuroji
5. Saw the homie Takia
6. Saw Da Slim Poet
7. Rocked two poems and a haiku to the delight of the crowd.
8. Saw Eternal and the homie Helena
9. Dwayne B beatboxed for Raquel, and eventually got it right :o)
10. Saw the homie Drew tear it down for his feature! Son was singing on the floor, spitting on folks (not really…well, he could have, but I can’t confirm it), making up even more vocabulary terms, i.e- ridiculosity: Of or relating to the ridiculous nature of an event, sequence of events, or an individual. I was cheesing the whole time while my boy featured, seeing as thogh my MIA ass hasn’t really been around lately.

Which leads me to something I just realized last night, with all that I’ve recently thrown on my plate, the kid will most likely be MIA for another couple of months, as I want to make sure all these side projects are done thoroughly. However, I will make a conscience effort to do better with my journal for the three people that read this joint. Among other things, I’m rebuilding the entire illpoets.com site…whoah! This joint is a monster, but, it’ll be worth it. Trying to step into the future with this one, ya’ll. Also, this summer ya’ll need to be on the lookout for illpoets rocking a live show! More details later on that, but, as you can see, I’m hella busy already, would you believe I have another side project that swarfs both of the other projects combined? Well, when I does it, I does it large, y’heard me pimpin’?

Oh, figured I’d paraphrase a question I was askedthe other day @ work from a co-worker?

“Are you African enough to know(me bursting into laughter)..well, are you African enough to work…here?” I can’t quite recapture it all, but that shit was hilarious. Had it been asked by someone other than a woman of color, I’d have been fired, but she was sincere with the question…she just didn’t know how to phrase it. Y’know, I never did answer her either…