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Shanty Town of Cicero

the reasoning the fishing in the trenches beyond tire swings and monkey wrenches follies crawl behind the hanging logos of unseen filth across 124th street tassels dangled above an oasis of fine dining and soiled linen over the board rooms covered in a mesh of purple mustard beckoning ancient aura solid creed coming throughout hidden rivalry tampered with ankara's answering service gravely time passes abaundantly coarse and yet shunned quietly we remember the malitia moreover we began a new wearing gray hoodies offering our youth to silent the storm that brewed inside a percolator pot of copenhagan snuff chewing tobacco screaming a cure for cancer shall rise over bob marley's tears as we munster up courage a courage of faith challenged behind the wrecking ball of ground zero we count one more time mon freedom will soon come in our most sinful hope

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Date: 12/23/2013 9:02:00 PM
Yolanda...I'm so glad you stopped by my merry Christmas poem..I popped over to your page and this title caught my attention....wow..the heart wrenching detail in here...awesome....I'm definitely coming back to check out more of your work after the busy holiday is over! And you need yo join some of the contests by members if you don't...:-) talk to ya later.
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