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rich-pa
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since 2000-02-07
Posts 317
New Orleans, Louisiana

0 posted 2001-07-11 08:47 PM




here's one more form the streets for ya'll, this is experimental so be lenient

crackheads prostitutes and pimps-
peeps telling me i'll get used of it
like a babe weaning off it's mama's tit
but if apathy is what'll happen to me
then i'll stay happily
sucking on those breasts
cuddled in my mama's chest
basking in the innocence
cause there's too many that don't care
a pervasive malaise and despair

i'm learning these ghetto ropes
realizing the only ghetto hope
is through ghetto dope
cause peeps heed drug dealers like they're ghetto
  popes
but my hope's learning and trying
my hope's that peeps start denying
the validity of our society
our culture that's feasting like vultures
as our hearts stop and our bodies drop
all perpetuated by their greed
and their need to devour our spirituality

so next time ya see me on the streets
and you're feeling these rhymes and beats
and like life is a disease acting degenerately
let's make fighting our full time job
and sing those spirituals like Bob that go
"get up, stand up
stand up for your rights
get up, stand up
don't give up the fight"
and we'll hope the people have the might


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Joyce Johnson
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1 posted 2001-07-12 07:35 PM


They can't beat you down if you don't let them.  Keep on singing like Bob.  Stand up.  Stand up.  I'm lucky not to have lived in a big city very long and then before it had turned so vile.  I am sure I would hate it as much as you.  Love, Joyce
rich-pa
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since 2000-02-07
Posts 317
New Orleans, Louisiana
2 posted 2001-07-12 08:45 PM


thanks joyce, but i don't hate it, i love it enough to want to help it and see that the best happens for it.

"freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose..." -janis joplin

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