barry shot a 3 / views frm the ivory tower

sketch a sublime,

of a mind before mines,

barry’s on TV and it looks like everything’s fine.

my president is black, my lambos gon’ be blue,

and the worst thing he did was put on a tan suit. 

it’ll all be ok, because my president can hoop.

shit and if he scored, maybe i can too.

but barry shot a 3,

then he missed and hit a hospital.

and maybe all that’s missing was the point.

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in a sense i was a proud boy,

loud applauses, loud joy,

thinking ‘bout “the dream” we lived to see. 

i was on the ground then.

from up here:

it’s easy to look down at what i looked up to,

but i have to ask if my position changed at all. 

i used to skip sunday school, 

still the one thing that cut across, 

was that pride is usually followed by a fall.

the power of the tower gave me sights to see,

yet overlooking from this ivory might make me lie to me.

instead of a tan suit, it’ll be the red bottoms that confine my feet.

give me like 3 to 6, 

and i might act like i don’t agree with this,

but,

what’s the point of a pride if it’s just the lion leading it?