Yesterday

I pick it up, I sweat it out

I endure through, I want to shout,

Yet I don’t know what I shout about

And I sing like women who are so stout

Where it began, from Kim to Stan

But I come home for some PB and Jam

Like I don’t know what I want to be

Like flying man Darth, can I please see?

A shortcut another way, is this how it outta go

If so, why shower with no money to blow,

Yet I choose sometimes I lose to blue

Blue mystery, so influential and true

Yet before we learn we have brains

Our folly makes us so insane

Turn red on your face, or like Mary Jane,

Looking for a sunny day, go away rain

And take away pain for another day,

Why I gotta stay, I never get to play,

Go move Far East, and 2 letters make your way

Couldn’t said its better green monster, no jay

They say make it rain, and then is your day gray?

Or does the cold wind blow away, the trees that sway?

My state of mind is but just a small Ville

Yet how powerful a glare can instill

Send you chills, no air with those gills

First comes the smokes, no money for bills

And if black is good why cant I breathe with it

Blinded, they wonder what I can sees with it

Call me poet crazy, I killed trees with it

Like how a teenager can seize it lit

But its patience, best to ease up a bit,

Performance of my life, better not forget

Today

The slaves, the masters, standing in the eve

The masters took the hunters, being so naïve

The greed took the masters, filled with vain

Greed married war with what became,

Independence hidden between families of hate,

The valley south of the phoenix, the villagers spat

And rode west to meet to fight for their Helen,

While the middle kingdom rediscovered like Magellan

They made the railroads that were already built

Beneath your feet, so the world could tilt

And tremble once again the opposite of love,

Indifference, the goal, won by the above,

The bird named Jim squawked fiction

So apart like your jaws, the jurisdiction

Yet to bite back and lash with confliction

The men who were blind could not climb

The mountains of gold turned to steel grind

From Virginia to California, non-stop

Rode the rich, former owner of crop

The rooster commanded, the hen tended

But then came jealousy, more than the serpent supplemented

When second became first but first fought back

And killed who is able in the east where love is lack

But Abrahams stars surrounded by gas

Persecution of the young girl lass

Led to the bombing of the land of sun

By the suppliers themselves, who is now one?

As the slaves and master intertwined

By the king of a protestant, so combined

And laid the king of slaves from a master born

As the new world is changing this man is sworn.

Incidents Part 2

As I continue to read this book, I realize that Dr.Flint has a lot of control over her.  One example of this is that she is not allowed to have a husband that is not permitted by Dr.Flint when she says that, " If you must have a husband, you make take up with one of my slaves.' What a situation I should be in, as the wife of one of slaves, even if my heart had been interested"(38).  It shows how enslaved she is and how evil and perverted Dr.Flint is.  I believe this to be a major ploy in the book that Dr.flint will continually stop Jacobs' from being able to gain anything.  I believe that through the sexual plot of Dr.Flint, the mistress is jealous and through that she is going to be attacked either way.  The mistress first pretends to protect her, but then does the opposite like when she, "She now tried the trick of accusing my master of crime, in my presence, and gave my name  as the author of the accusation"(33).  I think this shows how Jacobs' is cornered by both her master and her mistress.  I believe the Dr.flint will be overthrown sometime in the end of the book

Incidents Part 1

When I read incidents, I really already knew that it wouldn't be as emotional as it could've been.  As I started to read, it wasn't so much of a story as a documentary rolling through my mind.  Information was whirling around like a list of facts.  The story that the facts put together seemed both unsurprising and real at the same time.  The book started out on a good note, with Jacobs' saying that her father was allowed to, "Work at his trade and manage his own affairs",(Brent 9), showing that Jacobs' had parents with rights.  This showed the aspect of kinder masters and mistresses.  The book took a turn for worse shortly after.  Once Dr.Flint came into the picture, nothing seemed so predictable anymore.  Dr.Flint to me seems like a perverted man that abuses the power that he was born with.  I believe that he tries to take advantage of people because he is a white man and believes that he can do whatever he wants.  One taking advantage of people is when told Jacobs' grandmother that, "under existing circumstances, it was necessary  that she was sold,"(9) which showed how Dr.Flint was taking advantage of people  In the will of her deceased mistress', she was declared free, yet she was still sold to someone by Dr.Flint.  I am pretty sure that he is the main antagonist of the story and that Jacobs' is probably going to run away from him.  Overall the beginning of this book has been phenomenal.