POKER FACES

Every verse worth like a Mona Lisa
Might just grab Basquiat for the feature
I would not write Ether
Let my work speak from a higher ceiling

Michelangelo outta his shell
Spit like I’m printed in Yale
A baron I’m baring the brunt of the shells
Until I have cribs that’s built out like a barracks
For gang and the squad and whoever entailed

So esoteric
A Terror
To those who ain’t built like they ferric
They Tepid I’m temperature checking the well
The pool looking scarce

A thorn in they side I’m a Scarab
A bug to the ones who herald as Herod
Harold’s I’m winging it
Aw man
A Pianist I’m jamming a keynote speaker
But the talk a lil foreign like Giannis

Sorry
Okay who went and started the party
Who in here marking me tardy
Less you just back from the future like Marty

Told y’all it’s all in God’s timing
Anyone doubting can't come in inaugural Mardi Gras
Gratis
I gritted from lobby to penthouse
I bodied the lauded I’m just locking in now

Aw man now we innit

Think on what we circumvented
Went from apprentice to tenured lieutenant
In lieu of the minutes they spent chasing linens
I mastered Em all like this Lennox
Took lint out my pocket and lent it
All for the sake of my kinsman
All of they spirits is kindred
A grimace still look like you grinning
When poker faces all you knew to begin with
I’m gone