NeoRican Rules

“The power of Nuyorican talk is that it is street rooted" – Miguel Algarin

english is broken here
just like they rules
nigga wrenched
from racked ritmos
reality wrecked
and left in ruins
strewn across
stolen spaces
and places
sneaking passed
porto ricos past
into nuevo yos
stinking subway
six trains of thought
stuck between
snatched syllables
spoken imperfect
sign slanguages
sinking six degrees
separated by
sugar-co-cain
sewers and streams
of unconsciousness
racing beyond
split tongues
wrung and swung
on dirty laundry lines
off fire no escapes
hung from broken
boogaloo bootstraps
boosted from barrio
bodegas racked back
to back or abandoned
in burned out boricua
buildings and his-panic
hip hop houses of the unholy
o halah heroin nod to god
inside seventies salsa
stop and cop stupor
mercados asimilados
against fenced in
four letter mis-spelled
words and as-matic
add-verbs sprung
unsung from cultural
cages rican rages
pages written in
indivisible ink stains
over tortured tecates
tattooed boricua bodies
backed smack scarred
black against chalk lines
on crack pavements
atop affordable
portable housing project
palm of your hand trees
outside prison food stamp
deconcentration summer
camps where busted
radiator rhymes and
multicultural minds grind
against petty crimes
swaying me from sea
to shining can you see
them dancing free
mambo mouth to mouth
from north to south
agueybana meets obatala
y los de aqui welcome to
los de alla

(not4)Prophet