Author: Pete Aki'i

This is for the women we judge without knowing, and the systems that keep them where they are. Sonya’s face, has all the lines, Of a hard attitude. The steel in her eyes and her broken smile Show a mean mean mood. Life never dealt her one good card, She grew up fast and she […]

When the apocalypse is here, knock my door and wake me up I’ll need a panacea Got to shake my head all clear. And you know what happens next. Pills and potions from the doc I have no respect. Just make me more vexed . When my brutal shift is through,knock my door and drag […]

I swear I’m needing at least four women to feed my appetite. That’s one for the morning, one for the evening, and two to keep me up all night. I know I’m needin at least four women to stir my desolate blood I need four women at least four women To prove I can be […]

I wonder if you wonder how it feels to be hurtin like I do (2) I wonder if you wonder how it feels Wounds so deep I know they’ll never heal I wonder if you wonder how it feels to be me, right now I wonder if ya wonder what it’s like t’b as lonesome […]

Poker Joe, was just a man, loved his pint and liked his wife. But Poker Joe was a drinkin’ man and gamblin’ was the curse of his life Now a desperate man with cash in his hand is like baby playin’ with a knife! Poker Joe, he started a-winning seemed his lucky streak had struck […]

Entering upon a perilous liaison,secret and confidential on the file.Choice is strangeand there’s a little bit of shame,so we do it in secretbut we do it in style. Images and words, reflect a worldturned inside out by an intimate dream.Intrigued by the thrillof the hunt yet still,the river won’t flow too hard upstream. Only the […]

. I once felt language strike me like a storm — a flash that rearranged my heart’s circuitry. “Lightning in the Guts” came later, when that shock turned to song. It’s a roar against hollow talkers and self-appointed saviours, and a salute to those rare souls — poets, artists, truth-tellers — who speak because the […]

With the thunder of a demi god, she announced her arrival. As I lay by her side I should’ve prayed for my survival. Locked in her arms I couldn’t resist the power and the glory of that girl’s kiss. she drew me in with her innocent eyes tore my spirit with a smile that hid […]