Maybe if ppl didn't drive down Colfax
Like it's a highway
They'd see things more My way
The entire storyline
Both rich and poor alike
Microcosm
Invisible Divide
Within inches and feet
Walking the same street
And yet I marvel
At how this Great Wealth
Has come to dwell in this Poverty
Taking the 15L
Everyday taught me
That they'd kill me for nothing
They'd kill me for free
They'd kill me just for crossing the street
How many times have I died?
From their careless driving?
I'm living carless
I don't care regardless
If that makes things
More inconvenient for me
It is about
The things that I see
The Intersection of Class on Colfax
Colfax and Broadway
I Take the Bus
Everyday
YMCA
Westword
And
The Library
Even in late
January
February
–The coldest months
Of the whole season
I'll still take the bus
I don't have a reason
For walking the streets
Like I committed
Treason
Capitalism
–’s
Got me down
My smile
A frown
I can see it on my face
when I walk downtown
16th St Mall
Was once beautiful
Now if you walk it
It just seems so cruel
The rain pounded Me
The Bus, the 15
It never came
So I screamed in their face
And then ran away
I knew I could walk farther than them, I know this damn place
Noone Walks in this City anymore Goddammit
I found myself
In a tight little shop
Selling some Ramen
Almost closing up
But they didn't make a fuss
When I was wet from the rain
I needed to eat
Plus I had the money
I definitely could pay
Unlike some of the customers they probably had come in that day
Now I work at the Boba Shop
Things are literally Non-Stop
Finish The Order, Seal the Top
Call out the Customer
Finish, Before they
Get back to Class
Detroit & Colfax
Take a Deep Breath
Try to Relax
Amidst the Storm
The Storm of Exhaustion
I Hate Myself
For Surviving So often
Like a cockroach that cannot be squashed and
I wish I could be
Someone you could talk to
But instead I think I am
A Person Imposter
Always pretending
It feels so impossible
To be myself
In all opportunities
I think that it's just–
The person that's best positioned between the classes
Doesn't need to take off their glasses
They can just see things further than the masses
Could
The Capital and Starvation
Civic Center Station
Should be giving u
an eerie sensation
Bcuz within a few feet
It's a 3rd world nation
Colfax taught me something that they don't teach in School
That if U Want Change
Don't dance onstage
Like a Fool
That sometimes you've gotta break and bend the rules
That the person up top
Is probably cruel
That being along for the ride, is sometimes the best damn thing to do
