Mind Of A Hustler.

creative thoughts from a abnormal mind

Mind of A Huster.

Food for thought

Rent for shelter

Electric for warmth and comfort.

Bills are due

collectors claim, you owe me too

your neighborhood resembles a zoo

You pray for change and seek the top

bills pile as you wait, and Uncle Sam

wants his dough, if not today, a fee tomorrow

Tomorrow whichever's the First 

If you die lord forbid, the cost of that Hurst

watching your family starve slowly

Your position is worst

mathematically condemned

Lint is the only extra in your hem

So every Plot thickens to plan

Save your tears and excuses

A man has to be a man

A dollar a day is a average stand

25 to life is your expected wing span

but a attitude like this can soar higher

Than doubt and debt a mind of a hustler

is on check,check,check!

meal after meal.

God first then family are all that exist

few plates at the table, sweaty dollars in his grip

his actions is eating but all the above is a hustlers

mind set.

  

Reviews

[h d e rushin]

Interesting perspective. In the 70's a former pimp named Robert Maupin (iceberg slim)
allegedly retired from the game and began writing novels. He was all the rage
because of his observations and not so much his acceptance into the literary community.
But those observations were 'real' and made no excuses for his hustler's existence
or chosen lifestyle. I mentioned Iceberg Slim because so often in poetry you can hide
behind (with metaphor and meter) a world you cannot see or ascertain. You have chosen
to lift up the veil from the eyes of a hustlers uncertainty. "A man having to be a man"
is a line you hear repeated so often in the Black community. And it usually means
"to take what is uncomfortable and make it livable"

I love this poem, and as well, your approach to poetry. It is both refreshing and
heartfelt. No illusory bullshit that is so much a part of modern writing.
Well done my friend....dana