Best Ballers Poems

Flat screen televisions and rim spinners
Use to be a show of wealth

Gold chains and dinners
Excluded everyone else

Upstairs on round beds
Was where the magic happened

Sold out...

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Back at age fifteen 
was when I started smoking that green on the reservations poverty's scene 
making dollars like scholars 
shouting Se7en King when I...

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Honor truth
Settles the heart

Displaced young
They do start

Basket ballers hoops
Drops the love parts

aMERICA cuts the net
Ballers shoots the ball

Broken leg blurry eyes
Once again shoots a shoot
Drops...

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Questions are proliferating,
people search for answers
in old pants pockets
in long discarded purses.
The scampering feet of baby philosophers
can be heard from the moon.

The media is stymied,...

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THE GREATEST GENERATION
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Many Have Called Them the Greatest Generation
They Had Struggled and Survived, an Ugly Depression
It Was an Era of Hard Times and...

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In many ways your being sways,
Ask for better days, seeing what surrounds us as the matrix haze,
Fill ya temples layers with divinely shinning sun rays,
Be...

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It's like you are already dead
your heart beats
blood runs their your veins
but you are more than brain-dead
you are dead

You walk the streets at night
selling drugs...

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On the corner of Short con and Long play
sits the neighborhood ponies man
in his pickup van,
waiting to take parlay list deliveries
Feeling leisurely ... not wanting...

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Manchild , growing up as an asphalt wild
out on the streets , takin' the heat , 
every now and then , gettin' my beat
earnin' respect...

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i just want to write some new shii
not on some i wish i was rich tip 
but on some if i ruled the world shii
wouldn't...

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The muslims say assalaam alaikum
The jews say shalom
But there isn't any peace in the home
My grandmother just called the police on the neighbors across the...

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Dang, chick, what happened?
Why you lookin and actin
Like a hoe?
No homo.
But I know so
That it ain't supposed to
Look like you're after
Ballers and rappers.
Chasing dollar signs...

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in the corners of my room i place all my chapters of life

each one consists of a new beginning and an end

living in the streets...

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Ball,Bat and wicket
Three making thrill cricket

Ballers,Batsmen and Umpires
To differ to defend in all affairs

Batsman to sweat more to shine
Shining ball for the baller to shine

Saliva...

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What HAPPENED to the love we had
What happened to the dreams we had
What happened to the moments we treasured
What really  happened to the love...

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