Some things are planned…
Other things just kind of happen
Perhaps it’s…
God’s plan all along and we somehow get it wrong and confuse things by calling it coincidence…
I was alone
And God sent a friend…
Oh the strain it was
Falling in and out of love
Having to filter women
In and out of clubs
To finally find somebody you deem worthy of a chance…
A man who never has problems with getting a woman’s attention
Just problems with women keeping his
But she changed that.
I’m not sure how to feel
But I like her
And that’s a start …
If I was a car
She’s the spark…
Plug
I needed to get things moving
Attractive of course
She personifies beauty
Her spirit instantly connected with mines
Despite the loud music
And that’s it…
Not even outside distractions
Could tap in
Or block out
The fact
I was feeling her…
And when we first kissed
It was like watching an empty cup filling up
When dying of thirst
And that wasn’t a metaphor to say I was “thirsty”
That was me just saying I had no need to be cuz she was there…
A breath of fresh air
I inhaled her…
Her smile makes my skin glow
My pores seem more open
She’s the positive result of always hoping
Instead of being hopeless
And I know she’s broken…
Not the perfect carton of eggs
I know she’s cracked
We all have our imperfections
But if I didn’t believe that this queen was a blessing
I wouldn’t be up stressing in fear of losing someone I think is special…
Especially when I have other women seeking my attention
As if there’s…
A waiting list
I don’t have a list
Just a fist
That I use to fight off insecurities
Jealousy
Trust issues
What ifs
6 yrs of being single.
The pain of being heart broken
Not knowing how to love myself enough to remove myself from bad situations
Temptation
Temptation
Always temptation
And lastly mistakes that I’m often making…
I just want us to make it…
Beyond getting naked
Above being just a friend
Somewhere between the beginning and end.
So if it ends
I could at least say it was worth it…
Anthills: For the city of New Orleans and the 19 victims shot on Mother’s Day A Piece written by @johnlacarbiere
First… 
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THEN!!
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I’m going going back back to Cali Cali… Tomorrow & Saturday I’m gone hold the NO down on the west coast…
4/11/13
For over 20 years I’ve been putting words together because I love to write. I fell in love with poetry when I was in High School. I love the art. It was my hobby, something I found more entertaining than anything in this world. In 2005 when my dad drowned due to staying in New Orleans for hurricane Katrina, poetry became my therapy. Before Katrina I hadn’t performed spoken word much. Just at school mostly. It wasn’t until I moved back to New Orleans that I started hitting the stage and performing in front of people. In 2008 I put out my first book “I Write To…” That’s when I started to move towards a more professional mind frame concerning poetry. But I still was in school for nursing, still maintaining my day job as a front end Supervisor at Whole Foods Market. Fast forward to 2013, I successfully started my own company SWMN Publishing, I published 7 books, 6 books are my books, One of my books is currently being sold in a Whole Foods Market, I’ve recorded 3 spoken word albums, my words have reached countries all over the world, I’m Write NOLA Festivals 2012 Writer of the Year, I’m one of the faces of spoken word in New Orleans, I’ve successfully organized or helped organize many spoken word events in my city, and I’m currently traveling the United States. Now today April 11, 2013, 3 days after being fired from Whole Foods Market where I was employed for 10 yrs of my life, I’m sitting here reflecting on my journey thus far. I’ve wanted to quit my job at Whole Foods for some time now. But I wanted to quit when I felt I was financially ready. Honestly I’m not sure if I ever would have quit because I was too comfortable. The Money was good. The job was easy. Those who were above me gave me the time I needed to travel and perform. But on the other hand I didn’t sleep much, there was shows I had to turn down because I couldn’t get that particular day off or I didn’t know ahead of time and I had to decline. Now I don’t have Whole Foods in my way of my true passion. It’s bittersweet because I loved some of the people I worked with. I loved the opportunities the job gave me. I mean I spent 10 yrs of my life working for the company. I only had 2 solid jobs before that. Funny all of those years came to an end because I got caught using my cell phone and was told on. My fault completely. I was trying to manage the many things I do outside of Whole Foods while working at Whole Foods. I caught up to me. So they fired me. The sweet side is, I got what I wanted. God has given me the opportunity to pursue something fully that I was halfway pursuing. I’m sitting here today a full time Artist/Publisher, self employed, no money, but I’m happy. I finally feel free. I can’t lie and say I’m not a bit nervous for this new stage in my life. I can’t lie and say this will be easy. But I can say I’m going to do my best. I’ve failed myself. I’ve let myself down. I was on such a roll and lost balance. Now I have no choice but to maintain my focus and work harder than ever before. But I can’t do this alone. I need my family more than ever. I need my friends more than ever. All of my fans I need YOU more than ever. My art will literally keep me fed and put a roof over my head. Without your help I’m not sure where I will be. Tomorrow I’m hopping on a plane to Sacramento, California to perform two nights out there. When I come back yall can expect to see a lot from me. All I ask is that you support me and trust that I will give you my best. Purchase my books/CDs, visit my website sexwithmynotebook.com, tell your friends about me, and be looking forward to what I have coming in the future. This is my life. I welcome everyone to take this journey with me.
Peace,
John Lacarbiere III
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Photos from Erika Murry’s new Book “Pink Pearls and Red Stilettos” release 4/8/13 (Photos courtesy of Kenneth Dillon)
Tears for the homeless…
Tears for the sick…
Tears for the babies whose moms are strung out on that shit
So many tears cried
For daughters
Whose fathers
Never taught um
How a man should treat a woman
So many tears cried
That there’s puddles
And we walk on water like it’s nothing
Gotta be God’s work
To turn suffering
To happiness
Let me ask you this?
What makes you happy?
When there’s a five person family
Badly in need of something to eat
And you have more than enough means to help feed
But greed is the seed that sprouts through your being
Cuz the human in you knows you could help
But you neglect it…
________________________
For the neck-less
Not necklace
That hangs from the neck
But those who lack the spinal cord
The core of our spine
The line to our mind
Those who don’t take the time
To think for themselves
Their identity belongs to someone else
What in the HELL…Are you doing?
_____________________________
To an educational system that’s useless
Pushing students to be stupid
Profusely misleading the future
Leading them in a direction that allows the system to use them
There’s always an exception
But this isn’t to them
This is for those who simply teach a curriculum that creates more people to be servants
Modern slavery
Like our prison industrial complex servants
Who’s lives no longer belong to them
But the pin…
___________________________
For my street pharmaceutical movers moving
Pursuing a life beyond the projects…
I get it…
Trust me I get it…
Everything in life is a hustle
But dig it
There’s kids in the same position you aim to escape
But can’t help but accept their fate
Because you help create a space
For their parents to destroy them…
Not by your hand alone but you’re guilty…
Their parents… guilty
Most politicians… guilty
Most who enforce the law… guilty
Feel me
I can continue building on the negativity
That it reaches a level of energy that brings us all down
But instead of us drowning in what I would call hate
Let’s elevate
And escape to a positive place
Called love…
Love yourself
Ya family
And everybody else
Do right by ya people
Don’t let the evil deceive you
Don’t let failure mislead you
You gotta regroup
Success comes from failure
I’m trying to lead you…
Men we gotta teach our kings
Women we gotta teach our queens
We wouldn’t struggle so much if we came together
And lived by our means
We all love material things
But it’ll be more attainable
If we lived a life that was more sustainable
The result would be we all prosper
So stop the disorderly conduct…
It takes approximately 10 million yrs for a star to form
The Milky Way contains approximately 200 billion stars in it
The entire universe has somewhere between 10 sextillion and 1 septillion stars
Everyday there are new stars being formed from dense clouds, dusts and gas…
When you look up at the sky only a few stars shine bright
Those stars are considered to be some of the oldest stars in our universe
Ray from “Princess and the Frog” was in love with a cougar…
Evangeline
The queen of all things
Better known as Polaris or the North Star shines brighter than our sun…
That’s… AMAZING!
In my Justin Lamb voice…
But did you know.,.?
Every single element in the periodic table except for hydrogen comes from the stars…
Once those stars reach the end of their life span they explode into what is called a supernova
And everything that remains from that explosion floats around in the universe
Some of it eventually forming new stars…
There’s over 7 billion people on Earth
All made up of elements from the periodic table
With the exception of hydrogen
Elements that came from…
You guessed it… STARS!
So if you think you are nothing more than a simple human being
You better start shining like the star that you are
Because you are…
A super…
STAR…
Shine bright like a diamond…
No like Orion
I’m about to break it down to a science
How our energy
Combined with…
The higher power
Has made us universal
Every second, minute, and hour
And when our…
Love radiates through our
Pores
May it create meteor showers
Creating our
Own galaxies
No fallacies
Not even gravity
Can pull us away
Or keep us down
You are a star… that is profound…
How Oxygen and hydrogen combine to create water
Which makes up 60% of our bodies
Then there’s carbon
Which takes up 18% inside it
Like water
Is essential to life…
It has 4 bonding sites
That allows it to create long complex chains of molecules
These carbon bonds that can easily be formed and broken down
All of this occurring in our cells
666 does not represent hell
The mark of the beast
Or the Devil you see.
It’s 6 protons, 6 neutrons, 6 electrons
Carbon 12
The second element most abundant in our bodies next to well
Oxygen
Making up our physical state
But wait…
Then there’s Nitrogen
Making up 3%
Found in the amino acids that make up proteins and the nucleic acid that makes up our DNA
What more can I say
All of this came from Space
These elements are responsible for your face
You beautiful star you
Wait…
There’s calcium that regulates
These proteins and muscle contractions
It’s the most common mineral found in our body
Mainly in our bones if you’re asking
But so is phosphorus
Which is bout that action
Found in ATP The energy we need for chemical reactions
Speaking of energy
Potassium
The electrolyte that regulates our heart beat
Also responsible for electrical signaling in our nerves
And If you haven’t heard…
Sulfur gives our proteins their shape…
Sodium is another electrolyte signaling our nerves
But also regulates
The amount of water in our body
Chlorine also found inside it
An electrolyte that maintains a normal balance of fluid…
Iron a key element in metabolism that keeps us moving…
Also found in blood carrying oxygen
Magnesium structures our muscles and skeletons
Also essential in over 300 metabolic reactions
Fluorine found in our teeth prevent tooth decay
Zinc an essential trace element of all life, regulates genes
A deficiency may lead to the dwarfs we see
Copper is an electron donor
Without enough, iron wouldn’t work
Iodine responsible for making thyroid hormones
That regulate our metabolic rate
Not enough alters our state
We’d face brain damage
Are you understanding?
You are one with the planets
And there’s five other elements I haven’t even managed to speak of
That I can think of
Like selenium critical for certain enzymes
Chromium regulating sugar levels
Manganese we need for enzymes that protect the mitochondria that creates our cells’ energy
Moly…B…De…Num (Molybdenum) transfers sulfur into a usable form
Keep calm
Lastly Cobalt
Which forms proteins and regulates DNA
All elements that came from space
All elements that make…
You apart of the starts
One with the universe
The plants
The animals
You are outstanding
An actual…
Living, breathing
Phenomenon
So for now and on…
You better…
Shine…
May these words reach those who may need them and motivate those already on their path to keep going… You don’t know where to start or you’re ready to give up. You’re tired of your situation, be it with family, friends, the person you’re dating or the fact you’re alone. You’re not satisfied with your job, your financial situation. You’ve tried so hard and still nothing happens. To say don’t give up is easy… But if you truly believe in you. You want whatever it is you want. You gotta find that fire within you and add lighter fluid. Increase that flame until those that oppose you begin to sweat. Burn all fears and self doubts. Find the beauty in all the ugly that you face. Don’t erase bad memories or mistakes. Used them as the foundation, the building blocks, the motivation to get up and escape your present reality. You have the power. Be great! - John Lacarbiere III (Picture: something I painted that I named “Think outside the boxes” about a year or so ago) #motivation
