Next Level Shit

Pandit Kamalesh Maitra

Master Musician

Of the tabla tarang

Jamming out on the

Raga Deen Todi

Is some next level shit.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Smeared across the white walls 

Of the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Is some next level shit.

Mozart was

And always will be

Some next level shit.

Eliza Bennett

Embroidering the flesh

Of her own hand

In dainty rainbow colored sutures

In a defiant statement 

About women laborers

Is some next level shit.

Marilyn Chambers, Vanessa Del Rio, Jenna Jameson, Sasha Grey

Were some next level shit

In succession.

Jimi Hendrix coming off of a 4-way

And an electric high

Then writing 

‘Castles Made Of Sand’

Was some crazy ass next level shit.

17th century Japanese Samurai warriors

Ready to mercilessly kill within seconds

Unseen

Like the Bush Warbler

Adorning exquisite pressed silk uniforms

Were some next level shit.

The old grandma

Next to you

In the laundromat

That just lifted your wallet

With fat, meaty hands

Without you knowing

Because she had to feed

Her grandchildren...

It happened while she was kindly showing

You how to fold your 

250 thread count fitted sheets.

That was some next level shitl.