Why I Smoke in Silence...

Ok, So (he's back)

Why I smoke in silence…

America is a violent place right now and it’s been like that since day one.

I started smoking during the election season but it wasn’t the first time.

In 2016 I was a smoker for six months and then quit or mostly quit, as I lived in a group home as well, and was conserved by the state of California 

This year I started smoking again, but vowed to stop after three months and quit by the solstice.

In Atlanta, I’m a grown, 40-year old single man.

I drink sometimes I smoke sometimes -it’s unhealthy, but I need more than the meds that I am on.

If you think this is bad, you don’t understand what it’s like to be in America right now.

We are at war with ourselves. We are at war with the world. We are separating ourselves from human dignity and it is painful to be here -it is painful to be in any part of the United States of America.

I vow to be healthy, I vow to drink my ginger juice, I vow to drink my turmeric tea, laugh uncontrollably in mime, beatbox, rap, and be free of all that I was trained.

I am a hip-hop performer. 

Trained in the School of the O.

Schooled by Don Reed 

Educated by Glynn Washington

-entertained by James Cagney after a lunch a bowl.

All the dawns I know are black guys from Oakland,

they have bald heads, they know I exist. 

They route me On -

In email, 

sometimes they ask for money now if I wanna lunch or if I want stage time

I understand the sentiment.

I’ve been given so much mentoring in the Bay Area. 

I am one of the greatest to never exist.

But someday I will be known.

-J.ONE