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Beauty For Bosses

from Broken Bone Ballads by Ceschi

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Beauty For Bosses
(for Tim Holland & Pat Schneeweis & all comrades working toward a beautiful, "impossible" future. I wrote this after looking at Mayan art in the Yale Art Gallery during a visit with my father, Julio Ramos, who reached out to me & kept me inspired upon release from prison. The book "Huye Hombre Huye" that Pepe lent me also inspired some of this thinking.)

Today I learned:
that I wasn't built for the game;
that I'd rather play floor gigs for 40 kids
than any fucking festival stage.
I'm a martyr at most.
I'm a failure at least.
In the eyes of history I'll be no more than a leaf on a tree.
3000 years of work surrounding me,
by forgotten anonymous artists.
Beauty for bosses
before fame was even a concept.

Some of them were stoned to death
for the way that they expressed.
Today we're only stoned by debt and dope
and twitter feeds of jokes.

Hand me that Obama phone.
Text me love notes.
Lay my head to rest on a museum bench
and hope that they properly mummify me one day
so generations can learn from my broken bones
dug from under man made mountains of ATMS and motherboards.

I am alone.
Self aware,
Fat,
Getting old.

Capitalism is violence.
They say it's all we know.

I read about a time before prisons existed,
heard of an era before banks,
before civilians were born victims.
Dreamt of a place with no cops,
where skin color was insignificant,
where you could love whoever you wanted
because it's nobody's business.

Fuck a world
where justice is impossible,
where governments call cynics hostile
and equality is a utopian concept.

Fuck a world
that forces me to suckle its teat,
pay to breath,
and charges legal fees for a chance to be free.

If this is free,
somebody please beat the life out of me.
(Just kidding….but seriously)

I will die an artist, an artifact, a bad joke - from a naive time when human beings still had hope.

This will sound better when I'm dead.
Everything sounds better when you're dead.

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from Broken Bone Ballads, released April 7, 2015
Bass by Enver Hampton

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