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Chalk lines

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just different

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feigned grace 

like astronauts walking in space

 

except floating, paused

with a condition called death

 

stuck in a pose, staring at space

but there's nothing to see

 

the blank empty stare

a last imposition

 

no longer aware

of shadows or light

 

locked into position

a graduate of the life

 

in the art of dying

now just dying art

 

except the dying part

is a permanent start

 

it keeps on coming

never seems to finish

 

next up... another young kid 

with the illusion of unlimited potential

 

a voice that's could have been 

instrumental to replenish 

 

the fast dying sense of community

not enough to be free anymore

 

cut-off, why?

Drugs/thugs/corrupt cops

 

supplying, guns, drugs

aren't indigenous 

 

As cheap life comes

anything goes 

 

is... this the set-up

wasit merely a plan from the man

 

to exterminate the brothers 

from the hood

 

not for good

for bad and for worse

 

but first, give guns and drugs 

full reign

 

cash rivers to be locked out of good

the bite of poisonous reptiles

 

no mistaken loyalty

no royalty in this game

 

kingpins of mortal sin

conductors on a train to hell

 

selling tickets to crack cocaine, 

not the Cadillac of choice

 

just cheap thrills, guaranteed to kill

the livelihood, the family, the bills

 

Death by increments

black babies crying

 

people stoned out of their minds

flying, while never leaving the ground

 

going nowhere, except down... 

around and around and around

 

going nowhere, Fast...

Call you flash...

 

feet never touching the ground

too fast, the crash...

 

got to get a quick fix

get back into the fix

 

feed the need

nothing else, provides the kick

 

that stomps you to death so much 

quicker than cheap wine and bad liquor

 

who's next to be framed 

in the game?

 

enclosed within

chalk lines

 

 

C2 

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