2PENS&LINT
a new direction in poetry
2 Pens & Lint LLC
P.O. Box 3292
Philadelphia, PA 19130
The Sweetest Taboo
Doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
Even deeper
some things just ain’t worth dying for
no matter how good it feels
middle initials, keep pushing
he just tryna keep it real
most don’t understand like foreign accents
when I say I practice abstinence
and they ask Chris
well, you’ve never done anything?
sexual activity absent
often not even an obstacle
that’s hard to overcome
see the modern age has me afraid
of AIDS
not to mention it’s against my religion
Christian since my early days
born early eighties
in 09 cats be flippin scriptures
to make you think sin is okay, cool
Doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
but sixty five percent of the kids at my school
had sexually transmitted diseases
sixteen year old sex fiends
can’t imagine what percent actually passed away
some stories I could tell you personally
so personally, imma just wait to lay
cause some things ain’t worth dying for
even deeper, see what I’m trying for
what I’m striving for
love,marriage,then the carriage
in that order cause some be skipping the love and marriage
love, marriage, then the carriage
two parents behind that carriage
so that carriage stays on course
see, my parents never married
so there was no divorce
just a 38 year old lady
her early eighties baby
and another hard head
who’s daddy we ain’t seen since ’76,
fast forward to ‘09
and it’s some whole other shit
women only measure love in inches
and who’s slangin good dick
even deeper, how can I call you a queen
if you call yourself a bitch
Doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
doing it, and doing it, and doing it well
doing it, and doing it, and doing it well,
but umm… she don’t really represent no queens
issues my mother’s generation can’t understand
why strong women won’t demand a strong man
I said when the values aren’t passed
it leaves us all weak
my homeboy helped abort another baby last week
something something something should’ve used a condom
something something something no time for a kid
fast paced nation, apathetic killers
protestors for pro-choice
dead babies can’t protest death
word to Al Gore, for some
pregnancy be the real inconvenient truth
fast paced nation, apathetic
ain’t America all about convenience
from ipods to blackberrys
to abortion clinics
if it complicates your life
might as well just kill it
I mean, your convenience
is worth that child dying for
finding it too inconvenient to use a lifestyle, Trojan
or maybe birth control
go ahead and kill it
before it develops a soul
not to mention religion
and wasn’t sex meant for reproduction
something something something what about rape?
something something something if we aborted every child
produced from rape there would be no such thing as an African American race
no black community
or the problems that lie within it
fatherless homes started on the plantation
even deeper, we continue to play a role in it’s survival
a cycle
we just carry it on
on and on
on the flip flip
I done jumped up out of beds
and headed home
carried on
steady strong
amongst temptations
to bury bones
and never needed no pat on the back
realized the facts
and what’s gone make me happy long term
tryna keep down the right path
never make the wrong turn
early lessons learned
not to mention religion
and I’m just tryna break the cycle
of disease
abortions
mothers on their knees
cause the daddy wasn’t home
I’ve seen the effects
she asked why I’ve never had sex
something something something I ain’t tryna be no baby’s daddy
something something something not tryna have no baby’s mama
something something forget poetry
my greatest goal is to be a good husband
be a good father
so my wife and I can build a strong family
something needed but rare in my hood,
even deeper, three things plague my community,
AIDS
abortion
absent fathers,
Abstinence is my way of breaking the cycle.
-Christopher K.P. Brown