watch your step

you might fall
walking that way
you don't lift your feet
you're dragging your heels
i can hear the soles of your shoes from here
scraping along at a turtle's pace

pick it up. stick that chin into the air and declare!
it's a good day! a smiling day! a boot-kicking, trouble-sifting, soul-lifting happy day! get some skip in your step, some jive in your lip, let it all roll.
like fred told us in '98, keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'.
if you stop now, you'll never know
how beautiful this hiphophappy day can be!



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really now. on my knees to the good sandman asking him to stay away. sleeping as i'm walking as i'm talking right now. thought maybe a quick adventure in the school of upbeat internal diologue might turn it around for me, but alas! i have faltered.