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An Coyote's Ode For A Beautiful Road Runner
She's such a Looney Tune A Merrie Melody…
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Discount Music
I am trying to remember the lyrics to some of my favorite songs. I thought I could remember but oddly I can not…
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Triumph over Trump and the crew
OK, lets talk about it! We're at that point that seems fresh and recent as 460 years ago, no I won't ever let go of those images and horrors…
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Wounded
Im wounded and watched as the blood from my third rrib down on the left hand side evicerate and clot. It was like watching my feelings leak…
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I Have Forgotten
I have forgotten how your eyes would move and I could see the feelings that moved with them. They surrounded your bare eye and the shadows…
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Inmate #14127739
Ms. Brown, carrying 9 months of fear, 9 months of pain, 9 months of expections,expectations. He smiles like his father before the armed…
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Home
The sound of the bounce replaces every brutal noise of my reality…
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Black Mini Skirt (Involuntary Manslaughter)
Eyes follow thighs, make you stop…
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Time pieces (flossing season)
Without batteries our minds control the times of all affairs, even if our watches aren't polished enough to stand out on someone else's…
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Raped it
I kidnaped it in the dead of night I took that long hard pen…
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Prey
Like rusted coiled wire in dirt, my heart is weathered ... My love at tiimes timid…
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Mary's Bossa Nova
Six Strings sing.. Coaxing notes from the air, conjuring dreams of Favellas. Making love to conga drums, beating them into submission…
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Wallovens
Summatime transforms rowhomes into wallovens. Black folks sweating, marinating, waiting for that 12:30…
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A Poem For You
A poem for a girl who smile is as bright as the sun hovering over the horizon…
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Eulogy for Ron Oneal aka superfly
125th Harlem perspires beneath white wall tires, European headlights show the way. Pushaman selling stepped on fantasy. Pharmaceuticals not…
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Alone
Got get this off my mind while i feel this. No more dealing with ill feelings and repressions. Conversations and empty discussions with no…
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Potter's Hand"
I'm walking with no path... direction has abandoned me... waiting for divinity to intervene... from a place my eyes has never seen... just…
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Silence Tanka
Summer Breeze Silent Discarded without a thought…
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Foiled
Racial segregation, gentrification, miseducation, and polarization is the basis for this lost nation. Intra racial separation…
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The woman in the liquor store
Hey lady i dont mean to be rude but hi my name poetic we standing here in this liquor store your buying liquor im buying swishers my spirit…
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A Poet's language pt 4( Manifestation of the mind)
Words good like Gumbo, steps big like Dumbo, punchlines very intoxicating, I bet you get drunk tho. I won't front yo, I came from the hood…
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One Question:
"How many ways can I tell you I love you".... He quetioned…
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Kryptonite:
He slowly walked over to me, The bedroom shades down, lightly dim with them sun trying to peek in, I stand at the window with my arms…
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Really Free
There are times when i allow you to cross my mind...what was i thinking? This is not good for me or you...need to stop this. I am freer…
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Elephant Donkey Signifying Monkey
These people who want to be our president…
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Love you
I really love you because I fell into the background when you fell into my life. You were every part of me that I thougth was missing. I…
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Die
In my mind, I already know the exact day and time I am going to die. I am now without fear. Fear of bullets and the rage of what is called…
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This Thing Called Family
Lies, Deciet, Jealousy A remedy we live by…
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The fat phenamanal woman!
Why you eat so much? When are you going to loose weight?…
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Dear Society
Your perspective and my perspective about women's beauty is two different things. You say for a women to be beautiful we need to have big…
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I Am Also Yours...He Said of Here (Apropos A Beloved Child)
I Am Also Yours…He Said Of Her…
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xxx
I would whisper words in you ear But the ashes burnt my throat…
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Untitled
His love for her went as far as the fruit of her labor She can't even entertain it unless you tryna pay her…
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Raise U Like Me
As I sit back in my silver stack thinking about way back…
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MY SUCCESS YOU HATE
You have seen me cry Still you stand there and do nothing…
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Conscience Jungle
Choreograph the concrete steps of the spring…
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LAST DANCE
Hold my hand baby lets dance i saved this last dance for you flashing lights different color disco light matches the beautiful colors you…
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Chngin Face Of War, Them
Was a time each nation had their military…
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I CRIED OUT
I cried out no one answered but god my strength was weaker then a hospice patient the world kept spinning i kept still heart torn foreal…
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Ode To An Old Man
This probably will never reach my father but I feel I need to say it. I love you…
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Conscience Jungle
Choreograph the concrete steps of the spring…
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BREATHLESS
Kissing you leaves me breathless. Cuddling with you doing absolutely nothing leaves me breathless. Giving me that look that says you desire…
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TASTING YOU
The taste of you is so damn sweet, that I'm feening with withdrawals anticipating the next time we meet. I want to enjoy you like you are…
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Remembering Tanka
Alone with the dawn Words drifting into vapor…
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Night Prose 5
Emblazoned Emerald eyes Recalling imaculate dreams…
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I See It In Youre Eyes
In you're eyes has a twinkle, the light so bright, it shows rainbow of colors at night. Deep within me, you have a spot, where your heart…
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JoWanna (I Miss You Everyday)
Cousins, sisters and friends nothing can come and tear…
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man with the gun
Man with the gun before you squeeze the trigger I'm a man give me one chance put down the gun fight me like a man I bet you I can kill you…
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I Fear You
I fear so many things and one of them is you. That one day you will leave me, and leave my heart broke. And I will crawl in a dark corner…
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I Expect You To
Undiscovered, shine through, unburied, my heart has blinded you…
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Living With Pain
You beat me down, and say heal my own pain…
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I Rather It Be You
Sunset, love in bed, heart is swimming at…
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Phenomenal Man
I am a phenomenal man, I am a phenomenal man, I'm just that phenomenal, my current practices aren't abominable…
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Yearnin'
You're just like sweet pie I need a slice, my mouth is…
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"Better Half"
Love is a funny way of express yourself sometimes Most of your love had dark times with rain ,but you came out with the win…
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You Don't Complete Me
You say beauty isn't easy to find, but my heart is…
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Dark Coated Beautiful Man
You're eyes are a mirror I see through you…
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My Goliath
If Goliath could represent my fears Then my Goliath at age 13 was the dark…
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