RITE
Rappers have it easy: I saw
Rabbit in the film 8 Mile
scrawling smudgy lyrics down
on a scruffy wad of paper
until, all of a sudden,
we do lose ourselves on
that bus
Are seriously transported
as the music kicks in
for me
this tumor in my brain cannot stop
spewing out
broken, incomplete,
seriously underperforming lines
don’t even
rhyme
a waste of time
which word will spark
those mutant grey cells big
banging across
the page
going full light speed
entangling themselves with
everything
need
that Mathers acumen, that
Libra balance
the weighing up of all
things whole and
incomplete,
chaos and
ordered, Apollonian
Dionysian light
and dark
Leningrad ballet
savage equinoctial rite
