FOUR LOKO CENTO BASS (PUT IT DOWN)

take me back to those

malt liquor drenched 

after hours

ridin’ dirty

headin’ east on the 10

terius nash’s music bass

would shake cars

in the next lane

we backup vocalists

shake the asphalt

top flight harmonies

The DREAM

take me back, FAM

take me back

when the traffic 

choked, shake

put it down,

put it down,

put it down, shawty

right there

is the shit

subwoofers, amplifiers,

with enough wattage

to shake the polar 

bears

pull up, 

no exit

til song 

ends transmission

jubilant

R&B courage to the face

take me back to those 

malt liquor drenched 

after hours, Fam

take me back,

take me,

back

NOTES:

FOUR LOKO CENTO BASS (PUT IT DOWN) contains pieces of Marcus Jackson’s poem “BASS” +lyrics from The Dream’s songs “Put it Down” & “Shawty (Is the Shit)”.

       

Hailing from South Central, Los Angeles, Tauwan Patterson is Black + Queer Poet and recent graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina who, with his poetry, aims to, in the words of the great Poet and Thinker Marcus Jackson, announce his freedom and presence. Making a sound that echoes in the end that says Tauwan Patterson. No more. No less.