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I Want To Go Home But I Can'T

I lived in the ghetto for 18 years

I missed the
bake beans
lemon heads
Italian ices

I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home

I miss the basketball courts
Chilling with my homies
And those long talks about 
how we we're going to be star's one day

Home is what you make it
It might sound crazy about 
what I am going to say

I love the ghetto

Everyday was a struggle
But I still manage to find ways to smile

From telling the mommy  jokes
From when me and my homies 
entering the store in China Town
and hearing the lady
Shout out

HURRY UP AND BUY
HURRY UP AND BUY

And the community barbecues

I want to go home
I want to go home
I want to go home

But I can't
Because I died chilling with my homies 
at a burger joint in Los Angeles California

Please stop the gun violence

From Shaniki Smith
Commercial Poem
December 11, 2015

deathdramatic verse

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