"I gotta go to class" an original piece (September 08)

More original word-smithing. Remember my Badu quote. “…I’m an artist and I’m sensitive...” Well hell I’m just sensitive period. And yeah I know it’s kind of elementary, but I gotta unleash my thoughts somehow. And it would’ve been way more boring if I just droned on about it but least this way it rhymes. You should’ve heard “truly there is no place like home.” I saved you from that.

Btw, I passed by 21 posts on my blog recently and I just wanted to say...

“I take 7 MC’s stand em all in a line.
And add 7 more brothers that think they can rhyme
Well, it’ll take 7 more before I go for mine
Now that’s 21 MC’s ate up at the same time
Easy does it, do it easy that’s what I’m doing....”

An excerpt from …

My Melody
Eric B. & Rakim.
From their 1989 Hip-hop classic & debut album “Paid in full.”

I gotta go to class.

I want to enjoy my birthday
I used to celebrate the whole week.
But I gotta go to class
And the celebration most likely will be weak.

I want to enjoy my birthday
The possibilities of this I’m unsure.
I’ve got a class on that day
and a weekend lecture.

I want to enjoy my birthday.
Yeah I’ll be hours away.
But I’ve moved from my friends
In more than one way

I want to enjoy my birthday
I might get a few calls
Some don’t know how to get a hold of me
Some I wish couldn’t, not at all.

I want to enjoy my birthday
Well that was the plan
But just like 2001 it’s behind a national tragedy
And I’m not sure if I can

Enjoy my birthday,
I wish to
even if alone
But I’m broke and as of right now
It’s a week before my birthday
And I don’t have a home.

I want to enjoy my birthday
Would do it with love
But that doesn’t seem possible
There’s none [well at least not of that kind] to speak of

I want to enjoy my birthday
They threw me a surprise party last year.
But the real surprise is
I'm not still there

I want to enjoy my birthday
And instead of having a fit
realizing how I’ve struggled to get to this point
glad I got class, on my birthday
I think I might actually enjoy it.