E. Zora Knight

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a special order, straight queer and strong black.

2006-06-29

okay... i'm just happy to be on the payroll... happy to be alive.....

the last week has been strange. currently, unbeknownst to me, i am warring with princess. since we've been back from our audit, she has continued to be somewhat attitudinal and passive aggressive. passive-aggressiveness in black women is such a turn off, and just no fcking fun... i mean i can take from any other woman, but a sister. i support your cause, even if it's with me, when you're able to hostile represent your sorry ass case to my face, or at least my black ass while i walk away from you and your argument.... and what makes it bad is we're the two brightest, professional women in our area (despite color). you know, i'm not her tomboi or her bitch ass niccah. i just get tired of being played (all the damn time), takin the high road and ignoring her stupidity. don't let the grammar or lack of the familiar (ghettoness) fool ya. i did grow up on the east side of a town, if you know what i mean. i can get "gully" (with language), 'cuz i ain't gone hit no body without knocking a bunch of people down trying to run away after probably bitch slapping some air. (hahaha) so, i'm walking on pins and needles, asking for my DAMN WORK PAPERS and support documentation for her work findings. i want to move cubicles. she and the ellen are too damn moody. and i would have thought the ellen and i would have gotten along better, considering we have soooooo much in common.

i hate motorcycle riders in austin. yesterday, a foolish motorcycle rider, we'll call hoochie man (it was written on his del valle motorcycle club vest, he's the president), cut in front of my MUSTANG! now mind you he was riding a touring bike, not one for speed, did he really think he'd make it far? anyway, i blew the horn at him cuz his fat white ass almost became a hood ornament, a crack in my windshield, or bug splat on my front bumper, scared the shit out of me, all i could think of was fat white crack and leather bits blowing through my windshield. anyway, i pull into another lane and say, "that's why you fuckers get hit". now this is when it get's interesting, he tries to BITCH me and MY CAR.... his dumb ass is riding in the left median, where i could pin his dumb ass or worse, a piece of 18 wheeler tire truck rubber could knock his dumb ass back off that stoopidly SLOW bike he was riding... anyway, he's screaming what did you say, what did you say.. like he's from new york or something... now what he doesn't know is I WISH I WAS FROM NEW YORK, so what did i do? i pulled the fck over. he rode past, so i caught up with him and told him "i said that's why you fckers get run over. i have already dialed 91, fck with me some more and i'll dial the last 1. you ain't gone bitch me... (hell it was over 100 degrees, traffic was awful, and i needed to kick a fcking dog after the day i had, and since i didn't have a dog, he'd be my bitch.) he reaches like he's punking me, so i told him he'd get punked and i laid on my horn in front of all places DRUMROLL a funeral home. yes, i felt disrespectful to those persons viewing their friend's/family's remains... and like a scared baptist i prayed all the way to my destination, "GOD, i know that was wrong, please forgive me and don't let me die right here right now with that on my conscious..... anyway, he drove away.... and i of course thanked GOD that i didn't get hurt or hurt anyone (with my car).

last night i won the slam... well, the team won the slam. we took first second and third. feels good to be apart of this group. i can feel growth personally, professionally and poetically. now i'm happy i won 'cuz a sister was broke and going to the rations.... i have been trying to save money... "13, don't let the account fall below _______, but my standards are shifting and it keeps falling below that amount." but my bank account(s) are speaking negatively of me (as Lovie says). i seldom follow the weekly budget. at least now i could spend money foolishly without going into the account...

lastly... well, i think that's all... i have to complete a gazzillion reports.... that were due two months ago.

2006-06-28

e! you just ran across my mind...... impromptu 4 you.......

The thought
of her
stills me
in technocolor.
She
etches wishes
into haunting realities;
chisels inspiration
upon my soul.
And, I,
wait
in
wondered
awe.
In state of
puzzled - complexity.
Jaggedly,
forcing a forged
path
thru jig-sawed
life's choices,
wanting
completion.
Wanting to be her missing piece, so that I may be full filled.
Wanting to be the peace that will make her whole. (Again.)
Truth is -
she needs nothing
from me.
Yet the thought of her
steals all technocolor
in me.
Leaving imprints,
floating in the
absence of light, speed and sound,
void of her.
To be birth
of whispered idea
two weeks from today,
just to be found upon her lips.
To be seed
of budding flowers,
one spring morning from the autumn
of this season,
just to feel her touch.
To be rise in smile
when beauty catches her eye
two years past dawn,
just to be on her mind.
To be single tear from cloud
falling upon her cheek
at dusk on the eve
of Neveruary,
just to be a part of her imagination.
To be the Fall of her Spring,
when arthritic fingertips
run softly past her lips,
mimicking youthful kisses,
just to be a part of her every memory of love.
To be last footstep, kneel in prayer
or final breath from lungs
in this world,
just to be the first cry in her next lifetime.
Just to be (with)
her.
Grow old with me.
If loving her is as wrong as they say;
to be arms wrapped 'round her waist
or draped 'cross her shoulders
at earth's end, when hell freezes over -
I shall be stilled
or burn in eternal damnation.
Just to share the look in her eyes.
I am stilled in technocolor
at the thought of her.
I am going no where.
Without her I am.
Without her I can never.
Be .
(Again).

2006-06-27




SUGAR WATER FESTIVAL

SAY WHAT MOTHFCKR!!!!!

August 3, 2006 Nokia Theatre @ Grand Prairie, Texas

Jill Scott!!!!!!!Floetry!!!Erykah Badu!!!!Queen Latifah!

oh my gosh!!!! I am sitting here going out of my mind!!!! I am going to be broke, as I am buying my little sister tickets for her all time fav Mary J Blige... And now, a poet's dream has come fcking true... The REALIST, My favorites... The bottoms are finally bringing the SUGAR WATER TOUR to Texas. Last year it only got as close as Las Vegas, and it was much too expensive (considering we live in TX. And I was planning to go to the National Slam a couple of days later) ... Baby thanks for being patient and not holding my passion for poetry against me.... It paid off like a MOTHER!!!! I thank you for standing by me, lovingly as I tried to piece together the tour for you. We saw Erykah Badu, Floetry and Jill Scott.. All separately.. Jill Scott was our first official date... Before that we "tried to be casual".. (that's another fcking story) AND NOW WE GET TO GO TO THE MECCA..... On other notes.. Yes, I have been writing. Will post some stuff in a couple of weeks. Got back safe went to practice... I am teamed up with some bad motherfckrs.. Including our coach, who I am renaming Soprano.... Who is one of the baddest MEN I know......

I am loving life right now.... Two months into our new journey we are still in love, finding a new groove, despite my travel, NPS practices, our summer mood swings and the MOVE..... I am still learning and growing....I love you very much. NO CSI tonight, I will be home a day EARLY!
Thanks to my team mates and a great fcking coach. You mofos have grown on me!!!! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? We kicked arse our first time out, despite the fumbles of the first bout, we took FIRST in the second. Hard work pays off. It was great to feel the camaraderie with most Texas Poets (some definitely showed me what they were about) BIG UPS TO Houston and our SISTER TEAM EGO's.... (who took first in the first bout). Thanks Stephan.. It was fun..... Still writing..... EMPLOYMENT WISE I AM IN DEEP NORTHEAST TEXAS.. Flew in yesterday morning... Suppose to be here until Wednesday, but I've worked my audit team to death so that we can come back early. They seemed pretty happy about getting back early. Princess is giving me a hard time as usual. Why do black women always have to have the last fcking word? Even whenit doesn't mean shit? Don't get me wrong she does a better job than most, and I would NOT think of traveling without her, but some damn times, UGH! So, I got in touch with my inner-butch/dyke and let her have her way so that we could get the damn work done (and I didn't lose it by cursing her the hell out). Side note: I ONLY LINGER AROUND tomboy, because it's hellacute most days. I have some things I need to do before my first meeting today.
Okay... I'm still jamming Gnarls Barkley and Donell Jones. Anyone got anymore suggestions... Ohh and yes.... I have a summer announcement starts with Sugar ends with Festival! AND FUNKY IF IT'S BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST 12th I HAVE GOt to have THE NIght off..... PLEASE, PLEASE.. but I have to surprise ELM with it first.....

2006-06-22

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE DANCED?

I have been listening to a couple of cds lately.. Gnarls Barkley and the new Donell Jones.. Life has been much too hectic and I think it slipped out last night as Joe Beazie and I performed a broke, tired watered down rendition of Killing me Softly (Fugees). Practice, work, and life have been kicking my arse... I will terminate two contracts this month.. Which means at least one will result in some complaint of sort.... Which means legal, court proceedings, which means I have to do a lot of work now to avoid future work and heartache... Emotionally... Well, let's just say I'm out there so I have spurts where I want to cry because I am so tired and can't think .... Oh, I've been writing. I can't tell what's good bad or indifferent, because I want to do well at nationals.. Enough of that.... Man.. I miss ya Brooklyn (relent, t-t, guy, and mo!).. Oklahoma (slumping slump... I will try to catch up with my reading next week while in yet another hotel somewhere in Texas) da lew... missin' you too. Got your message Q will e-mail you something later, and yes Copa, I'm ignoring your requests, how many times we gotta say we got you, we got you, now I'm a little further out than most, kind of like creve couer to downtown (cousin sarah, you think that's accurate?)........ All we need to know is when are you bring your butt down here... austin homepoets, missing you like AC in the Texas heat.. And you know how hot's been.... poetinlaw we better see a DAMN POEM REAL QUICK! Angel, I'll get it next week. cousin I miss im'ing you a million times a day!!!!
thir13teen

2006-06-21

MIAMI WHO?

I don't have much time for anything. Work. Practice. I have been writing quite a bit. Have been given multiple writing assignments and once the "slam season" is over, I believe I will be a better writer and performer. Even if I wind up single with no social skills, cuz all i do is hang out with imaginative folk.

Anyway.. I called if, if it wouldn't be the SPURS it would be the HEAT. Congratulations Alonzo Mourning and Gary Payton. They are two of my ALL-TIME favorite basketball players... Along with my ALL TIME FAVORITE COACH - Pat Riley.. I am an old school die-hard Laker fan... Not the Kobe era bull-shyt.... As fate would have it, I missed the entire game due to practice......

I had both your jerseys as a tomboyish little girl.

Zo.. Georgetown Hoya t-shirts were all I EVER WANTED TO WEAR during basketball practice. I had five, but they were in constant rotation. I didn't get rid of your rookie Charlotte Hornets jersey until I gained too much weight and knew I'd never fit into it after my second knee surgery. I also believed, that I wwould never be that tomboyish girl again. I took a picture inside your locker at the basketball hall of fame, the year I believed your health would not allow you to return to the NBA. And all throughout your career I called you a beautiful man, inside and out... We share a special bond must too personal for this public space (no I don't have his secret love child!) I am ever so happy for you in this moment.

Gary!!!! Arrogance and attitude will take you anywhere and everywhere! Look where we are BABY.. ON TOP OF THE WORLD! FCK 'em if they can't take a joke. We can! I believe you are one of the best defensive players to play the game... and have on of the BIGGEST HEARTS. The charity work you do NEVER MAKES THE NEWS, NOR DO YOU BRAG ABOUT IT... A SILENT SOULDIER.. I feel and hear you. And at 38... Pushing 39 anyday... You can say you did it and you have it.. Wish it would have happened back in Seattle....

Now for the SPUR CONNECTION:
Derek Anderson (shown in photo with Gary Payton, was once a Spur (2000-2001, before being traded to Portland).
Shandon Anderson (not shown) is the younger brother of Spur Willie Anderson (1988-1994). Willie also played for the Miami Heat before retiring.
And Shaq.. Well we have a love hate relationship with him. But he graduated from a San Antonio area High School... And attended Spurs camp! HA

2006-06-16

What uppers... been writing quite a bit... super busy at work, so I'm not able to post as much... Week since Wednesday..
Wednesday
I got back from my business trip and went to the slam on the other side of town... totally fcked up situation. I sat from 7:05 pm to 8:05 pm, only to be told along with the remainder of the group of poets wanting to participate... "you may get a ticket that says next week, which means you will be guaranteed a spot for the NEXT SLAM... WTF! I have to HOST next week this is the only FREE WEDNESDAY I HAVE IN A MINUTE. What did I pull? Next Week. Frustrated and angry, I went over to our spot... Entered the slam. I had an amazing night, if I must pop my collar. And our crowd was not favorable to me because I am a "regular." They were giving tremendously fair and equitable scores... Anyway, long story short.. I tie with a "certain poet up I 35", who true to form does his love pieces. Well, I mean, I can't beat a man in a STR8T VENUE with no damn love poem so I do BURN.... I mean, hell I want to win, too. I've been learning secret techniques in the art of slam. He put names in his piece made littel references to the women in the venue, including me.... So I decided to incorporate some of his poem into mine, along with references to wear he lives and our venue... I mean it was only FAIR .... Now, I could tell he was "hot" to say the least... So, I decided I would take "some" of my winnings and give them to him, to show the money wasn't IMPORTANT.. I "JUST" wanted to have fun and defend our house... I mean B-FRAN had already put a LOCK ON HIS VENUE THE PREVIOUS WEEK... Did he think we'd return the favor and let him put a lock on ours? HELLTADANAW.... But, this is what I have to say.. FCK IT IF YOU CAN'T TAKE A JOKE... and if you're talking..... to quote my piece... i won't say here or where... but so the next time my ears are burning this piece and your fragile ego are BLOWING THE FCK UP RIGHT NOW... 'cept mine in a good way.... It just shows... well, you know what it shows....
Thursday
Practice... we got to relish in our victories... WAY TO GO MICHELLE.... 50!! Winning in S.A. and of course... B-Fran wins in Dallas and Ft Worth..
this is hard work.... but, I would not trade this experience for the world. Bet..
Today -
Well' it's Friday.... What more can I say....

2006-06-15


Happy Birthday Hustle and Joe......

2006-06-13

seven whole days and not a word from you

what up peeps? sure i almost got erased from a few lists.... well, bitches.... I'M BACK!!! well of sorts.... currently I am at my home away from home..... a friggin suitcase.... and no i'm not staying at the fabulous hotel derek.. but i am back to the the intercontinental.... NICE AND COZY....
let's start backwards..... how we got here..
today -
NEW CHARACTER INTRODUCTION:
willyoushytthefckup - a co-worker accompanying us on our trip... Normally it's the princess and myself... we get along famously.. this time in order to get the work done, we HAD TO BRING SOMEONE ELSE... she talks incessantly.. wait, she BUTTS into EVERYCONVERSATIONYOUAREHAVINGANDDOESN'T
KNOWWHATTHEHELLSHE'STALKINGABOUT. PLUSYOUHAVETOFIGHTHERTOFINISHYOURCONVERSATIONMINDYOUITDIDN'T
INCLUDEHER. after the fifty-fifth time, i just said out loud, "may i please finish?" uhhh she irks the hell out of me. and despite popular belief, most people don't irk the sit out of me, they annoy me.... she irks....
yesterday -
willyoushutthefckup complained all morning... VERY PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE THIS ONE IS.... if i heard she doesn't do well starting any moring beginning with 3 blank am one more time, i thought i was going to pry her mouth open and literally TAKE A CRAP IN IT... she was that full of shit. Try going to SLEEP AT 12:30 AM ONLY TO GET UP AT 4:00 AM. mind you, i hadn't had any sleep because.. well.. keep reading. anyway willyoushutthefckup also discussed not wanting to eat another heavy meal.. UH HELLO WE ARE WORKING IN THE 3RD AND 5TH WARDS IN HOUSTON TEXAS.... what else are we going to eat? Unless Superfcking Salad or Jason's Deli had opened up in Family Cafe, Frenchy's, or Jimmy Chan's you wasn't ging to get anything without some fatback until we got to our Galleria Area Hotel. aside from the constant chatter regarding how long we work... The first day is always about 14 hours.... Is it our fault you took a job that requires YOU TO TRAVEL and you live over 100 MILES from the airport? damn i wanted her to shut the fck up.. too much negativity and I was tired as hell.....
sunday-
i think i got 4 hours of sleep. i think... coach has us doing some top secret shyt and it's....... well, top secret.... but practice was....... top secret..
saturday -
i got home at 5:30 am from san antonio.. read poetry at dreams and free verse... a lot of New Orleans poets.... good night....... way to go TREY! Myra! we rep'd like a mofo... still got home at 5:30 to get up at 10:00... for some top secret shyt....
friday -
i was tryingto recover from anthony hamilton the previous night.. sleepwalking at work and i have to go to san antonio tonight for the New Orleans poets.....
thursday -
anthony hamilton... hung over most of the day.. worked thru it...waited in the heat (outdoor concert) ever so worth it.. SORRY ANGEL... he's from the south and he's found a wife and religion.... he DID put on a hella show though....
wednesday-
neo soul... i got drunk cohosting with brian. it was fun. i don't remember much else.... 'cept i got home near 1:30 am and i had to BE AT WORK BY 7:30 AM....
tuesday -
puro slam san antonio... got third.... not good. stumbled on most poems.. have no idea why... maybe lack of alcohol since i'm working on reading without liquor.... that my friends and frenemies was my week... how was yours?

shouting out to brooklyn... haven't called, but i love you all you are in my heart.. relent counting down to july... mo, see you in august...
shouting out to OK.... slumping and sighing... slumping and sighing
what it dew in da Lou? Copa we will see you in AUGUST BABY.....come on we got you... Hey Q and fam.....
san marcos done moved closer to home.... i see ya cousin..
i've been reading. but comments and not always easily available.... so charge it to the internet and not my heart...
as copa says.. peace and blessings......

2006-06-06

HIGH SCHOOL MEME - Copied Mo.

1. Who was your best friend? Adrienne M Henderson, Monique Warren, Terriald Jones and Jeffrey Miller. Terri and I just hung out last week. Monique and I talked on the phone two weeks ago. Adrienne, Terri and I are still very close.
2. What sports did you play? BIG 3 (volleyball, basketball and track)
3. What kind of car did you drive? do feet count?
4. It's Friday night, where were you? mcdonald's after a football game or midnight movie outside of football season.
5. Were you a party animal? Uh, no.... L7 baby.... I was an athlete. (I thought) I was cool though...
6. Were you in the "In Crowd"? I was popular because I was an EXCEPTIONAL athlete, could play the "yo' mama game better than anyone, and I wrote hella good english papers......
7. Ever skip school? uh no. My grand would have my ass... and then give it to my dad... and he was pretty fierce.. even if by phone.
8. Ever smoke? My cousin Tonya tricked me... weed with pcp.... screwed me up for days...
9. Were you a NERD? YES. More than likely, probably so... I was in journalism and all the honors classes.. BONEY AS ALL GET OUT.. Saving grace? SPORTS.
10. Did you get suspended/expelled? Uh, hell no.
11. Can you sing the alma mater? hell tada naw.
12. Who was your favorite teacher? Ms. Henderson... Adrienne's mom.
13. Favorite class? journalism/english
14. What was your schools full name? Sam Houston High School. Gary Green. Kansas City Chiefs, 4 x NFL Pro Bowl. Alumni 1973. Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr. First African American to walk in space. Alumni 1974. Ken Starr. Infamous Starr Report during Clinton's Presidential term. Alumni 1964
15. School mascot? Cherokee Indian (now it's a hurricane)
16. Did you go to Prom? Yes, plural... proms....
17. If you could go back and do it over, would you? HELL YES! It was FUN.
18. What do you remember most about graduation? my grandmother's smile. telling me i graduated the same date as my mom...
19. Favorite memory of your Senior Year? making my journalism teacher cry on her first day of school... my friend monique told her my grandmother was "special" and she taught piano classes.. later ms. hawkins asked me a question about my grandmother and the piano classes in front of the entire class. I faked tears, and told her it wasn't funny because my grandmother didn't have any arms.... the rest of the class roared.... Being ranked 6th in the State in hurdling....
20. Were you ever posted up on the senior wall? no
21. Did you have a job your senior year? what the hell was that? i had an intership at the bank for about 2 weeks.. my butt was lazy outside of sports and reading...
22. Who did you date? don royster til the bastard cheated on me while at at ole miss. then had the nerve to come home for homecoming and try to get back with me... so i dated his friend granville holmes to get back at him. ha!
23. Where did you go most often for lunch? cafeteria in building two
24. Have you gained weight since then? weight? try a fcking obses adolescent. he's sitting on my butt and hips right now.
25. What did you do after graduation? went to new orleans as usual. then i got snatched back to san antonio to (undergrad) st. mary's for the summer school.. they said they wanted me to get ahead... it still took 5 years.. but at least i got a double major. ha!

2006-06-05



every day i try a little harder, more diligently, to pick up the broken pieces of yesterday.....
no one bothered to tell my that my hands are not skilled enough to reach into the past to change today.... no one bothered to tell me that those mistaken pieces slip past the lint, out of my pockets.... following me... leaving a distinct path for those hurts and fears to sneak into and overwhelm my todays.... the one thing i do remember about that trail... is i have to stop in order for them to catch me, jump me, stop me..... i may be weary... i may be slow... but i'm moving on....... for how long? don't know... but i'm not stopping today.


in case you needed it.......



always stay one step ahead.....

2006-06-04

nonsense' i call



thunder booms!
inside.
mimicking
heart breaking,
life faking,
emotional stakes.
nothing.
everything.
something.
laughter
hiding slivers
of lighting
intensifies movement;
then
staggered flashes
close the heart
and numb the pain.
refusing to let go.
slowly moving.
no more to take in.
or push out.
I, calm,
still.
no movement.
drips of blood slip,
spill from broken split.
soaks autumn soul.
storm come fast...
furious.
chaotic.
calm-lessly soaked clouds
release tear drops.
stripes up top
spin 'round
lost.
cognitively ignoring cost,
screaming pain of loss.
eruption passes.
acts as if it were
never here.
yet remaining
scent of fear,
sticks to thin air.
eyes closed to what is real.
keep spinning.
emotions
pushing feel-ings
praying my umbrella
will protect me....
thir13teen

2006-06-03

She told me to tell you that she is simply lost without you.......
that she misses you dearly and knows that her arms are stronger and longer than anyone's to best support her...
it doesn't mean she doesn't need yours...
it doesn't mean she doesn't love you...
because she does......
she just told me to tell you that....
she just wanted you to know.....

2006-06-02

She told me to tell you..........
That if there was a trophy to collect for the last 36 hours you've won. She hurts. Actually, she asked me to post the medals she would like to give to you. While she does not want to engage in past games and simply get over the hurt and pain, it appears as if you'd like for it to continue.

She told me to tell you that despite what you thought about yesterday's post, it was not aimed directly at you, yet you personalized it and ran with it......

Painfully enough she still loves you regardless of the disappointment and pain. She simply views it as growing pangs and is not willing to make another NEGATIVE DECISION for 90 days.... she believes that the two of you can and will grow past it..... that's if you want.

2006-06-01

She told me to tell you....
no matter how much she tries to let go, and trust that you will be there for her.... loving her, touching her, letting her know that she is truly important in your life.... you never cease to amaze... and continuously disappoint.....
She wanted me to tell you, thank you.......
life is a bitch and then you die. this is what she knows. thanks for reminding her. that there are few real loves in life, and perhaps the lies that you've been telling her, you've begun to believe....
or perhaps it's the truth in your behaviors that she must truly listen to.....
She told me to tell you.... she hears them LOUD AND CLEAR....