Best Eastside Poems

A restaurant chosen
For the family 
A group of seven
The table chosen
The meu in hand

We are choosing meals
Then enjoy a drink
Waiting for our food
Conversation begins
As we...

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Those winter evenings on the Far Eastside-
remembered still for the aromas of
potatoes frying and coal smoke-
intermingled in the crisp twilight air.

At just about dusk, every...

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Trinity Garden Bloods 4ever
Poem by Cmack Estevez 
I grew with friends from Elementary
I grew with bloods in Middle School that I knew in 2nd grade.
But...

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Goodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons
and your streets that have become
as loveless as empty barracks.
For you I will never weep.
After all,
your Senators
Who made...

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I didn't mind shooting him between the eyes one bit, what made 
it harder for me was how he pleaded for his life and said...

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Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been...

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She was young, I was old.
She was easy, information gold.
No she did not have a contract yet.
But she knew her school – Eastside Prep.

Had met...

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eastside, west side, uptown and downtown
riding the iron rail on the underground
the A, the B and the C
the F, the E and the D
the1, the...

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Bas’ video of Africa really inspired me 
Just riding on the Nile river Casually 
He got me thinking bout my life, my family 
My roots,...

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Come on come on  everybody bounce bounce bounce with me
I am a hot stepper can't nobody hold me down so set me free
Everbody ...

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I thought it was you.
I was startled by the tangerine glow that beamed so brilliantly 
through the bedroom window 
on the eastside of my house.
That's...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a...

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