A Matter of Degree
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A Matter of Degree
Copyright Corinne Curcio April 27, 2008
Oil slick rainbows on asphalt streets
But no pot of gold waits at the end
Unless you make sure you don't ignore
An enemy or a friend
Abdul's drivin' his cab down the highway
With Walt Whitman sitting in the back
A Red Tailed Hawk flies over Prospect Park
While Hassidim are fashionable in black
Brooklyn, City of Churches
Where saints and sinners agree
A strong conviction
Is a benediction
It's all a matter of degree
Mermaids wandering on Surf Avenue
Call Coney Island home
But Steeplechase, The Funny Place
Was torn down ages ago
Senor Sanchez calls from his bodega
"Play Lotto - You may change your luck"
Or enter hell at the Galaxy Motel
Where crack whores will blow you for a buck
Brooklyn, City of Dreams
Where losers and winners decree
A bad-ass attitude
Ain't considered rude
It's all a matter of degree
Hopscotch girls and skateboard boys
In liberal/racist all kind of faces neighborhood
Culture and crime, if you fall or you climb
You learn to take the bad with the good
Brooklyn, City of Churches
Where saints and sinners agree
A strong conviction
Is a benediction
It's all a matter of degree
Copyright © Corinne Curcio | Year Posted 2009
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