Summer Boot Camp.

So What?!!!



Nobody said This Was Gonna Be Easy...U Should've Known.
When Ur On Tha 7 Seas of Success...U Must Expect 4 Ur Boat 2 Be Thrown.
Sometimes U Go Overboard...Gulping Water With A Treasure Chest of Fool's Gold, Tha Only Thang Being Shown.
But Once U Hit That Depth of Tha Lock Ness, U Realize That Tha Swim Coming Up, is Gonna Be So Great...Like a Sultry Bedroom Moan.

Everythang Imaginable...Almost...Is Happening To Us...Said Before, It's Like I'm Taking A Class.
Tonight, May Feel like I'm Being To Honest, But I Don't Care...If U Don't Like It, U Can Smooch My....
Cuz More Than Ever I know That Our Life is Special...More Like A Marathon Compared 2 A 100-Yard Dash.
And This Life is a Canvas I've Been Waiting To Get a Hold Of...We're Painting a Masterpiece, Minus Tha Crayola's...Yet Still Making a Colorful Splash.

Yeah, I Feel It On Tonight...Is It 2 Early 2 Say That?? I'm Only Like 2 Stanzas In.
I Just Feel Good Though...Like All These Lessons Have Made Me Better...And How This Movie Has Yet To Say...'Fin'.
U Betcha Ur Bottom Dollar, I Got a Lot of French Kisses Still In Me...But I'm Learning Now I Want My Leading Lady 2 First Try Out as My...Friend.
See, Yeah U Can Have Great Opening Lines, and a Wardrobe Like Tha Best Starlets...But I Want 2 Get 2 Know Ya...Then I'll Pull Tha Ruler and Video Cameras Out...2 Measure How Far Ur Back Can...Bend!

For Tha Last Few Weeks, It's Been Somethang New Everyday...I Almost Don't Have Enough Seconds 2 Explain.
Let's Try...Sacrifice...Money...Patience...Wait, I Haven't Even Mentioned All Tha Dames.
Ok...6am Girl On Roller Blades...Tha Laundromat Fiasco...Gurl With Such Curves and Style, Helping Somebody Who Was Walking Sorta Lame.
Then I've Met Tha Coolest Gurls To Date...Of Course, They Are Taken...But Miss Colorada and Miss Javy Made Me Realize That There's Still Hope in This Game.

Now, As I Wrote That Last Verse, A Mosquito or Nat Popped Outta Nowhere...Which Was Symbolic of Where My Life Has Been.
All These Dreams of Future Success Coming To My Mind...Trying To Smack it Down To Tha Right Choice...Where 2 Begin?
I Wonder Has Anybody Else Felt like They've Had Tha Perfect Text Message To Life, but It Just Stays in Ur Phone, With No One or No Inkling Where To...Send?
That's Where I've Been At...Like I'm So Ready To Be This "Whatever"...My Heart is Pumping Hard, Where In Times Past, I Would Wonder When It Would Mend.

In A Way, I've Been...Confus...No...More Intrigued...Cuz I'm Doing Tha Best I Can To Remain Up...When I Sorta Feel Down.
Wondering...How Come I Feel like I'm Doing Above and Beyond 4 Tha Cause...I Should Be So Joyful, but Really and Truly...All I Can Do Is Frown?
Y is That?  I'm Blessed With Cash, In Tip-Top Shape, and A Closet That is a Mix of Lenny Kravitz, Jay Timberlake, With All Tha Sexiness To Attract My Jackie Brown.
But All I Do Want Is To Have Fun...THAT'S IT!!...I Want To Do Thangs That Get My Juices Flowing Like Good Convo, or Seeing New Places...Life Isn't All About Negligee Gowns.

Before I Get Really Loose Tonight...Just Painting This Picasso of Where I Stand...Cuz I Keep on Saying It, but Tha Journey is Sometimes Defined By Tha Means.
It's Funny...Right When U Think Ur At Ur Most Frustrated Moment, Somethang Cool Happens...Like Paying Only $5, Can U Believe It...For Some Joe's Jeans.
Yeah, U Wonder Why I Get This and Not That...Like A Waitress Giving U Some Remy Martin, When U Specifically asked For Some Ciroc...It May Be Good, but U Want What's Hot On Tha Scene.
Our Plate Has Been Full For Sometime...But Tonight, I'm More Determined Than Ever, To Make Sure I Totally Wipe This Muthasucker Clean!

Interesting.

Has Anybody Ordered Somethang at a Restaurant or One of Those Corner Street Food Trucks, and Gotten More Than What They Actually Wanted?
U Ask Homedude, 'Can I Have A Hot Dog With Relish, Mustard and NO ONIONS', only To Find Home Skillet Giving U So Much Condoms....Or Condiments That U End Up Feeling All Bloated?
You Would Rather Have More...Than Not Enough...I Still Remember being at Pollo Tropical, and Seeing Tha 'Rice Specialist' Begin To Ration My Portion, like A Band Class Budget Which Was Never Funded.
I Almost Hopped Over Tha Counter, and my face Began To Turn Ultra Red...If I'm Paying like $4.59 for a Rice and Beans Tropichop Then I Want $4.59 Cents Worth!! Tha Manager I Almost Like Confronted.

But Getting Less Than What U Wanted Can Get U To Utter Some Words That Even Comedy Central at Midnight Wouldn't Allow!! It Can Get U Steaming Hot...
Another Time I Was at Dave & Buster's Ordering Food on That 'Eat & Play' Tip...Noticing a Steak on Tha Menu, That Was Looking All Sizzling and All Juicy...I Could Feel My Mouth Water Not a Little, But A Lot.
I Order That Yamma Jamma, And When Shorty Brought Me Back Tha Plate...A Feeling Came Upon Me Like Never Before...So Weird...Like J Cole, J Holiday, TI, or william...Without Tha Dots.
This Steak Was So Small, That Not Only Did I Feel Used Like A Freshman at Senior Prom, but I Didn't Even Want To Go and Play Skee-Ball...And Everybody knows I'm Tha Elvis of That 100-Point Spot!

Guess I'm Saying All That, Cuz I'm Learning That Sometimes Life Tests U in Ways Like Getting What U Don't Want...But Also, Getting Things U Want...But Not On Ur Time Chart.
Lately I've Been Tha Biggest Brat in Tha Galaxy, Cuz I'm Getting Hooked Up So Much in Certain Areas, but Still Wondering How Come I Haven't Gotten That BIG Broadway Part.
Basically Have Everythang A Person Can Want, but am still Trippin'...Throwing To Tha Side When I Got a Fridge Full of Tha Best Food Available, and Still Asking Tha Cook Above For A Side Dish For My Heart.
I Always Joke about Tha Gurls Who Get a Gucci Bag Instead of a Prada One...But That's What I've Turned Into...Not Happy Just Winning Tha Game Anymore, but Want That Bulls-Eye From Life's Dart.

Then I'm Being Forced 2 Keep My Ego in Check...I Stated Before Not 2 Many Can Relate...Maybe.."Yeay", 'Tha Material Gurl'...And I Can't Forget Tha 'King of Pop'.
I Really Feel Like We're Tha Best, Got a Chip on My Shoulder To Prove That...In Terms of Fun, Being Romantic, Turning Lemons into Lemonade...I'll End There, Even Though My Beyonce Won't Let Me Stop.
My Personality Is Just One In Which I Want To Live At Tha Highest Level Possible...That Can Include Chillin' With Tha Coolest Babe Around...Or Riding Around in Tha Latest Ferrari Drop.
Material Thangs Don't Move Me Like They Once did...My Ego is in This "Team" Mentality...Not Just In Winning MVP, but A Championship...Right Now I Feel like That Destiny is Becoming a...Lock.

I Say That Cuz I Get Cocky or Swagged Up Through Tha Struggle...When a Job Disses You, Or When Tha Road is So Tough...I May Cry...I May Cuss...After That Though...A Notch is Added 2 My Belt.
Sometimes People Do Thangs, That Just Add Fuel To Tha Fire...Like Going 2 Drive-Thru and Them Messing Up Ur Order....Whatever...I'll Just Work Harder After U Giving Me This Checker's Cheddar Melt.
Recently I've Felt Like A Mike Tyson of 1986...Yeah, I've Had My Share of Knockouts, but I Want My Own Championship Belt!  (Get it!)
My Creativity and Desire To Make This Galaxy Turn From Freud To Kardashian is Stronger Than Ever...Nuthin' like Being in Tha Oven 500 Degreez...Coming Out Like Weezy F. Baby...Like a Stealth.

As U Get Closer 2 Ur Dreams Coming True...Tha Tests Are Gonna Get Harder...Tha Last Few Weeks I've Literally Been Taking Celebrity 101...Feeling Like This Was a Pre-Requisite...No Elective.
Looking Around and At Tha Door For Somebody Else To Walk In...And I Sit In Tha Front Row Alone...Thinking How Come So Many Want 2 Be a Star, but When Choosing Majors...This Class Never Gets Selected.
So During This Summer Course, I've Had Others Join In For a Lesson or Two, Thinking They Were Down...Only To Leave Once Tha Homework and Me Myself Even Got More Eclectic.
I'm Not Holding Myself Any Longer...U Gonna See Tha Real Me...It May Be Sexy...Or It May Be Scary...But I'll Just Stand Up in Class and Talk To Empty Chairs Not Caring Who's Not Receptive.

Getting Back To This "Spoiled Brat" Dilemma, This Class Has Given Me A Lot To Handle On My Plate...Are U Selfish?  Do U Really Believe?  Does True Hotness Lay Only in Tha 20's of a Gurls Hips?
This Final Exam Has Led Me To Wonder if I Really Want To Push Forward, Or Finally Give Up and Say It's Too Much...It's a Difference between Ordering Up a Drink and Being Forced To Sip.
Sometimes Though, Tha Hardest Thangs in Life, are Tha Thangs That Make U Tha...Well, Feel Ur Best...I Mean, Why Do U Think Personal Trainers Usually Always Include Max Out Sets on Tha Machine of Dips.
Being Positive and Tha Life of Tha Party is Simple When Tha Bottles of Dreams Come True is A Flowing...But Tha Test is When U Turn Over That Receipt And Wonder if It Was Even Worth That Flip.

Cuz Even Though U Got Tha Dineros To Pay Up, U Never Knew That Having Fun Would Cost So Much...Am I Wrong For Wanting To Spend a Few Nights Living Tha Life on This Drive of Ocean?
U Start To Think That It's Not Worth It...I Mean For Me To Have Fun, I Gotta Pay $20 For this Appetizer of 'Sacrificial Lamb'...I Still Can't Wrap My Head Around That Notion.
Then Tha Wait To Get In is Too Long...I Know This Place On Tha Other Side of Town That's No Cover, With a Happy Hour Til 3am...But $30 To Get In????  Dude, That's Like a Bottle of Neutrogena Lotion!
Yeah, This Place May Have Tha Hottest People and Give Me Tha Time of My Life, but Give Me Something That I Don't Have 2 Wait or Work For...So What if Tha Jukebox Doesn't Have Juvenile's "Slow Motion"!

Whether Talking About Plates, My Summer Class, or This Jumping Nightclub, I've Made Up My Mind That I'm Gonna Do Whatever, Go Through Whatever, To Get What I Desire and Want.
I Don't Care Anymore....Yeah, I'm Cranking It Up a Notch, but I'm Also Learning How To Stay Within Myself...No Longer Am I Going For it on 4th and Long...I'm Playing Tha Field Position...I'll Just Punt.
Life Can Change on a Light Switch, in An Instant...Go To Bed With Lucy Lawless and Then Wake Up To Lucy Van Pelt...Thinking U Have A Warrior Princess, Only To Find Holding a Football For Charlie B. To Be Her Biggest Stunt.
Sometimes Life Can Give U What U Need, and Make U Realize There's a Time and Place For Everythang...Xena May Help U Save Tha Galaxy, But Now U Need a Lucy Who's Straight Up and Not Gonna Front.

For Awhile I've Been Writing and Thinking That I'm Right Where I Want To Be...May Sound Like Bragging, but I Truly Believe That I Am at That Top of My Game.
Tonight isn't Just For Me, but For Others Who Have That Swagger Yet Wondering How Come They are Going Through Trials That has Them Doubting Everythang Including Their Own Name.
U Have This Fire Within U To Become 'Tha Ultimate You', To Prove People Wrong, To Be at A Level Where A 'Off Night' With You is Still Better Than a Month With Mr. Ol' Same...Ol' Same.
This Though is When U Really See Who U Are...For Ur Fire To Burn, U Need Some Wood...Sometimes It's Hate...Sometime Rejection...Without That Wood Tha Flame Can Be Tamed.

Gonna Say This and Then I'm Gonna Watch Me Some Mexican Football...or Soccer...In Everythang U Do, Be Yourself, and Never Be Fake.
When U Dating Somebody, Be Real...Tha True You...Better To Get It Out of Tha Way at tha Beginning, Than To Lure Somebody Along and Them Seeing That Ur Too Good 2 Wash Dishes or Pick Up A Rake.
Just Saying Though, That When U Make That Commitment, Expect To See Thangs Happen To Question if It's Worth All Tha Trouble...Thinking It's Not This Hard For Prince Bill and Kate.
I PROMISE YOU...When Things Get Hard, that's When U KNOW That Ur Dreams Are About To Come True...It May Take Years For a True Diamond To Be Carved And Bling As a Perfect Jewelry Make.

This Poem May Alienate People Or Prevent Me From Getting That Dream Doll...But That's What I Want...No More Playing Games, It's About Fun and Luv, and I'm Not Looking at Tha Score.
When It Comes To Fun, I'm Living It Up To Tha Max, Letting Life Come Our Way, Which it is...Enjoying Life if From Tha Pitcher I See Arnold Palmer's Ice Tea or Tha Simplicity of Tap Water Begin To Pour.
When It Comes To Luv, I Understand How To Treat a Special Gal, Like Tha Special Gal She Is...That's Not Chomping Out or Being 'Weak'...That's Knowing How To Be a Gangsta For Her...Yet Remembering  2 Be Romeo and Open Up Tha Door.
Bro, I just Want To Live and Enjoy This Thang Called Life...Point Blank...I'm a Crazy Dude...One Day Laughing Bout 8th Grade Hoops...While Another Time Laughing So Hard, I Fall Out on Our Tile Floor!

It Don't Take Much For Me To Get Wound Up...My Dreams are Coming True...Whether I know it or Not..And Trust Me...I'm Gonna Share My Notes To This Class That Seems So Hard.
Once Ur One of Tha "Last Ones" U Get a Lay of Tha Land and See What's Needed, And How U Can Fit In...Like Picking a Door Lock With a Single Joker Card.
Clowns Sometimes Have 2 Cry Too....But That's What Makes it So Cool...When Tha Best in Their Craft Endure Tough Seasons...When U Have Tha Bread, Yet U Feel like a Lump of Lard.
I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way Though...And Working in Tha Modeling Industry I Know That Tha Best Models Have Features Unique To Them...

And Now I'm Realizing That, It's A Good Thang To Have...

A Few...

Beauty Scars.

Galaxia!!