when I was four years old
they tried to test my I.Q.
they showed me a picture

of 3 oranges and a pear
they said,
which one is different?

it does not belong
they taught me different is wrong
but when I was 13 years old

I woke up one morning
thighs covered in blood
like a war

like a warning
that I live in a breakable takeable body
an ever-increasingly valuable body

that a woman had come in the night to replace me
deface me
see,

my body is borrowed
yeah, I got it on loan
for the time in between my mom and some maggots

I don't need anyone to hold me
I can hold my own
I got highways for stretchmarks

see where I've grown
I sing sometimes
like my life is at stake

'cause you're only as loud
as the noises you make
I'm learning to laugh as hard

as I can listen
'cause silence
is violence

in women and poor people
if more people were screaming then I could relax
but a good brain ain't diddley

if you don't have the facts
we live in a breakable takeable world
an ever available possible world

and we can make music
like we can make do
genius is in a back beat

backseat to nothing if you're dancing
especially something stupid
like I.Q.

for every lie I unlearn
I learn something new
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight

'cause every tool is a weapon -
if you hold it right.