Earth Tones – It Gets Better!

I AM…
A PRO that’s CRASS/
When I was TEN, I, ATE, OR, wasted time, now/
How dare I get up here at 28 with rhymes/
Talkin bout ‘I *DO* poetry’/
The fact I’m doing anything’s what makes it hard to notice ME…/

The smart kid that did BAD at school/
Without the wherewithal to ‘least try to ACT like a dummy-/
Make the classmates laugh and fool-/
The younger teachers make ‘em think I’m actin out ’cause I ain’t HAVE no money/
No, Sonny/
I would raise my hand and wait-/
Then, go home with homeWORK and procrastinATE/
Put my backpack down, start waxing lazy/
Cut the ‘tendo ON, re-lax and MAYbe/
Tune out, until I feel like gettin BACK in tune/
Until then, save the world, straight smashin ‘shrooms…/
With Mario, now it’s kind-of-a-different scenAHrio/
ScenArio, Sanaa will never marry yo’, broker ass/
‘Never took a toke but still sittin on the sofa‘-ass/
‘Crib ain’t even got like, a motivational poster‘-ass/
‘Talked about your dreams and still have ‘em when you’re older‘-ass…/
How am I NOT living under an overpass?/
Supposing that’s not rhetorical, let’s explore a few/
Reasons why the Oracle would never call me Neo/
First of all my ego: I need to be an equal/
When people think I’m equal, to matter that is fecal/
But when they speak inclusively I try to be the future me/
Distant and improved to be the leader of the newest thinK…/
So here’s is the second thing, this one’s even better/
I bring it all together, so just listen this is clever/
Here I am a Scorpio, born in a dog year/
So eventhough I’m all-ears: hard-head? Aww YEAH!/
The third thing’s also a trait of Arachnids/
I work best, with a full plate and a task list/
But only when a deadline approaches quick-fast-swift/
It comes to back-against-the-wall, I got it mastered/
As-if, I needed another reason it’s easy to/
Think of my success as a product of Karma being true/
I’m a good guy, so I catch, my share of breaks…/
And really, at the end of the day, that’s all it takes-/
For me to see the opportunity and think that I deserve it/
Even if I don’t my mind is set there’s no deterrence/
Then, procrastination eventually makes me nervous-/
So I leave the final straight-away with fire on the surface…/
Sometimes I win sometimes I lose–it’s not a perfect science/
That’s all the reason that I need to try to surf the crisis/
Cause future me’s, already building his legaCY-/
That I’ll never see, if I rot away like severed trees/
Who knows? I could go on to travel the seven seas/
Till I’m sevenTY with a reciPE for progressive PEACE/
The last debt in my life would be time borrowed/
I’d kick my feet up and tell ‘em I’ll pay it back tomorrow/