[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] Meters land on the page like the strands of a chromatic melange Hunting stool pigeons from my lawn Encompassed by lethargy On cable lines they lounge; Any afternoon they'll still be cloaked in sleeping gowns While letting inversions occur I drop trite remarks on mental sidewalks like feces This winged playwright takes flight...Learn More

[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] My stigma self-induces the enigma White hands examining the black hand's damages As civil blood makes civil hands unclean They was screaming Free Earl and forgot about Nadim Thought I kept him in mind Thoughts had kept me in line Along with intuition when had stained my disposition I keep a little something in my carry-on 4...Learn More

[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] My religious references leave agnostics cross As substance insinuations make fiends impatient Swimming in solitude Execute the stomach stroke Blunders fall onto heirs like unwanted growth Intravenous friend becomes a part of the blood oath Poke into concealed tales that smell like parables His face is on the post With toes...Learn More

[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] A balled for the blasé to which he can relate is enough to feed his soul which is a hot tamale These impetuous thoughts make me a jumping bean Toilworn arm lengths grasp for a pristine existence They want a way to rid odd-balls like vets who neuter, to get the pewter Policeman's aura is a centrifugal fuss Contingent upon the...Learn More

[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] Politicians be on that ostensible altruism like a man unto a boy of whom a cigarette was given And while holding bosh in a bucket over a door to brainwash, my teachers watch I take your negligence as sacrilege when you've been given eyes to perceive and a brain not to believe these conjectural fools And pop cultures garments...Learn More

[Verse 1: Themba Ntaka] Noogie a nubilous brain to shake things up for the dubious The work is tedious I can turn magic wands into an intrusion Or pull a rabbit out the ski mask When given tales of a prolonged vagabond One would wonder where the next rhyme's gonna spawn Bleached interests Swimming in many eyes The girls dared us to dive into their...Learn More