Baby Mama Drama

Last night I went to see the play 'Baby Mama Drama'. I really wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was. What I expected to go and see was a play full of real life dramatic events, what I actually attended was church with some acting in the middle. I'm kinda upset that I went to the very last show, because now I can't recomend that any of my friends go and see it. We took pictures and got autographs, then I went home and called it a night.

Being a writer I can't help but feel inclined to write my own little review of the play. But I also have other things I have to do with my writing first. So I'm trying save all the leisure writing for later. I have a lot of things going on at one time, so I'm trying to say as focused as I can for the sake of my overall sanity. But I'm sure it'll all work itself out.

Finally, I wrote something

Well, the storm came and went. I got to be snowed in. It was fun while it lasted. I swear my mind must work contingent upon the weather. I said before that my mind (along with local business) was shutting down in preperation for the storm. Well, tomorrow is back to your weekly routine, whatever yours might be. And as if it knew that the storm was over....my mind shifted back into full gear. I wrote a 3 page poem today. I'll have to check but I think this is a record. As I was listening to Fantasia's CD and thinking about a friend, this poem came to mind:

MELODIC LADY

Melodic lady
Yea, her voice is
Hypnotic baby
Her soft blaze
Is amazing.
The songs she sings
Brings
Tender tunes
Into quiet rooms
A minor pitch
And
Savvy switch
Her skin is caramel
Thick thighs, bedroom eyes
And coca smell
Well,
What could one expect?
She makes her presence
Evident
When I hear her sing
I think of Jazz
Dim rooms, soft talk
She’s got the right kind of pizzazz
With a ‘come get me’ walk
Her riffs take you back
Like
Etta James
At last
Her name is Melodic
But I call her Aria for short
Cause she laces every lyric
Like it’s a sport.
She is the lady that sings the blues
When life takes its toll
She is the Sam Cooke track I play
To rejuvenate my soul
She is a
Melodic lady
Yea, her voice is
Hypnotic baby
Her soft blaze
Is amazing.
She could kill a chord
Cause her soulful craft
Is it’s own reward
Her canticles cut like a sword
She’s the reason Solomon wrote
The Song of Songs
With her pipes she can blow
A chorus just as long
She’s sexy
To me
In every way
Her anthem’s perplexity
Makes me stay
Long after the song is done
Soulful, sexy songstress
Got me gone
Yea, she’s the one.
After acappella
Notes she sang
Her southern twang
Makes me want to
Introduce myself
To this
Melodic lady
Yea, her voice is
Hypnotic baby
Her soft blaze
Is amazing.
Her harmony
Could easily
Make me fall into her bed
Her charming keys
Could forcefully
Pull me into her head
Her femme physique
Accentuates a smooth mystic
Cause she’s
Urban like city streets
But with class
You’d swear music played
When she passed
I’m impressed
With ne plus ultra
She ballads the best
She opens her mouth
And it’s like a music box is
In her chest
That’s why
She’s my
Melodic lady
Yea, her voice is
Hypnotic baby
Her soft blaze
Is amazing.
Piano keys, and poetry
Is her muse-ik
Don’t confuse it
She could set a melody
To anything I write
Set it a blaze with her voice
And like a Phoenix
Bring it back to life
She could easily illuminate
Any room she’s in
While she talks to me
She
Talk’s to hymn
I can tell
She
Has no parallel
Cherish her
I might as well
Hell
After all she is a
Melodic lady
Yea, her voice is
Hypnotic baby
Her soft blaze
Is amazing.

Unique Verses 2005

It's written from a guys point of view, just for those that were wondering. And no you're not missing some deep rooted messege, it's just about a guy (a poet) who is in love with a singer. She doesn't have to be famous, in fact in this poem she's not. But if you read it and you think she is....that's fine too. I was really worried that it was too long. But then I told myself it doesn't matter...I write for my own satisfaction not anybody elses. I like it, may make some changes, but I like it. Haven't decided whether or not I'm going to post it on my website. Now if I could just write maybe two or three more, of this quality then I would be happy. I guess I see what happens tomorrow. Technically it is Monday already but I don't count it as a day until the sun comes up.

Anticipating the Storm

We're supposed to get a snow storm soon. Don't ask me why, but although I hate the cold, I absolutely love being snowed in. I like to stock up on chicken noodle soup (which I eat all year round) and Blockbuster rentals, and just chill. Sure, you can do this anytime, I just particularly like it when everything is shut down.

I also like to wait for all the phone calls from friends and relatives informing you of the obvious. "Girl, you see all this snow out there?" or "Have you been outside yet? It's really bad out there!" Don't be offended if you're one of these people that summons me to harken the discernible fact of countless feet of snow on the ground. It really amuses me. But I will bring to your attention that I never call you informing you of the aforementioned. It's mainly because I want to avoid the slaughter of sarcastic responses that involuntarily come from my mouth. Like, "It snowed? In the middle of July? Really?" or "Oh it can't be that bad, snow would have to be at least chest high to pose any real danger" Forgive me but you really do leave yourself wide open.

Needless to say, other than the anticipation, my day today was boring. I'm not even sure when the storm is supposed to hit. I do know that the supermarket is low on all the 'snow day' necessities...bread, milk, and water. You would think that I would take advantage of the dullness of the day and write. Nope. Not because I didn't want to, I just wasn't motivated. I guess my minds shutting down in preparation for the storm as well. Other than this journal entry, I haven't written anything.

Child Support

After you hit a certain age and don’t have any kids and none on the way people start asking when you plan on having them. This is especially true if you happened to be a woman. I don’t know why it’s more expected of a woman to have kids than a man, especially since we can’t create them by ourselves. But at any rate, I was thinking about child support and why some women have more trouble with money than others, when they are receiving child support.

I hear complaints all the time about how child support is not enough to pay for this, and that. And I honestly couldn’t say for sure whether it is or isn’t since I don’t have any children and hopefully will never be in the predicament to be getting a child support check. But the common complaint, at any rate, is that the money just is not enough. My question is “Why isn’t it enough”? I always thought that child support was for the child. To me this means, money for daycare if needed, food, clothes, doctors’ bills etc. Obviously not true, these days as I see more and more women complain that their child support checks aren’t enough to pay for things that they really shouldn’t be using child support money for.

I’m not talking about your average everyday hood rat that uses her child support money to get her hair and nails done. I’m referring to those who use some of their child support to pay general bills or pay the rent. It is these things that I believe a mother or father should be able to pay without using any of the money they get in child support. I believe if at anytime you have to use child support money for bills, then I guess it’s not going to be enough. When child support is allocated it is done so that they give an allowance to the child, not the parent and the child. Meaning the money granted is only enough to pay the extra cost of having a child. Not the regular cost a person would have regardless of if they had a child or not.

There’s only one circumstance where child support should be used for rent. That’s when a parent has to move or pay rent for an extra room for the child. Needless to say that a two-bedroom apartment is going to cost more than a one bedroom. The parent would have to pay rent for a one bedroom regardless, now if having an extra bedroom is going to cost $50 more a month then using $50 from a child support check is justified. But when you use $150 for extra rent, $80 for a phone bill, and then the electric is $60 and you only get $250 every two weeks, it’s never going to be enough.

The problem I think is that some parents receiving child support expect it to take care of them and the child. The parent with the custodial rights to the child ideally should be working anyway and making enough to take care of any bills that they are going to incur. If however they can’t work, or don’t make enough money to take care of their own basic necessities than they really don’t have the right to complain because it is their own fault that the money doesn’t go as far as it should. Point blank, they are not carrying their own weight. The child is paying for things that the parent should be able to pay for.

Another Online Journal

This is my third online journal. I have two on AOL. I guess I can use this one for my thoughts and opinions on miscellaneous topics since AOL limits me as to how much I can write. AOL has a maximum of 25,000 characters, and to be honest not everything can't be compacted into nice neat lil paragraphs. Especially when it comes to me. I'm so opinionated I could easily write a book on what I think and feel about anything. If you want to read what I have in my AOL journal here's a link Only what I want you to know!.

Please don't expect to see a new entry everyday, although I love to write the truth of the matter is I just don't have that kind of time. Right now I'm concentrating on my career in law enforcement, so needless to say that's where the bulk of my attention goes. I guess that's all for now. More to come later....OMG you see what time it is!