Friday, March 27, 2009

Ego Trippin (there may be a reason why)

(Kenya by Lazlo Emmerich)

I was born in the Congo.
I walked to the fertile crescent and built the sphinx.
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light.
I am bad.
I sat on the throne drinking nectar with allah.
I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe to cool my thirst.
My oldest daughter is Nefertiti. The tears from my birth pains created the Nile.
I am a beautiful woman.....
I gazed on the forest and burned out the Sahara desert.
With a packet of goat's meat and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours.
I am a gazelle so swift, so swift you can't catch me.....

For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son Hannibal an elephant.
He gave me Rome for mother's day.
My strength flows ever on.....
My son Noah built new ark and
I stood proudly at the helm as we sailed on a soft summer day.
I turned myself into myself and was Jesus.
Men intone my loving name.All praises All praises.
I am the one who would save.....
I sowed diamonds in my back yard.
My bowels deliver uranium.
The filings from my fingernails are Semi-precious jewels.
On a trip north, I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the Arab world.
I am so hip even my errors are correct.

I sailed west to reach east and had to round off the earth as I went.
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid across three continents.....
I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal,
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission.
I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky.......

-By: Nikki Giovani

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