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What Price Safety? {edited Version}

how much is it worth to you to feel safe and secure?
how much would you spend? how much could you afford?
what is the monetary value that you would place on your life?
how much money would it take? how much would you sacrifice?
what price safety? how much money would you spend
just to have that feeling of security once again?

too frightened to get on the elevator in the building where you reside
don't know if you'll make it to your door before a thief is at your side
too scared to walk to your car alone in a public parking lot
don't know if you'll get the keys in the door before you're assaulted or shot
America has been on heightened alert since the Twin Towers did fall
the airports, the borders and Homeland Security are constantly on the ball
so how much would you spend to remove from your life that spirit of fear?
how many dollars would it take to protect what you hold dear?

there're not enough police to go around to be in society's face
so security officers take up the slack and stand in their place
we've become the front line defenders that the community sees
to detect, protect and defend them and their property
yet without benefit of weapons, no batons, no vests or guns
we hold to our positions and we get the job done
but we're at a disadvantage when it comes to getting paid
for we barely make what would be considered a livable wage
what price safety? what would it be worth to you
to give security officers what they are due?
what price safety? I ask you once more
what price would you pay just to feel secure?
WHAT PRICE SAFETY?

Getting It!

Im still in pursuit of this money man, cause ain't nothin changed
I want the position where i'ma be running things, no fame, I give a hell about the bling 

I'd rather get paid without all of these groupies all in my face
excuse me, boo, you all in my space

Things changed and Captain Mike ain't coming to save yall
I'm a baller, chick i play hard, to the graveyard

Im a chase this paper with no doubt i catch it
survivor, never no stoppin until my pockets pregnant

Get it all, better get on your hustle and hit it hard
22 and im living large, go get involved, and if u ain't willin to get it, better starve

i'm a get mine, i'm a get in my grind mode and grind slow
even though time show, 

i'ma try to get mine riding high til i go broke.. 
nope not me, long as it's money out on the streets
i'm a stay hungry, everday im having a feast, These people done created a beast.....

Premium Member Roulette Senryu String

I bet red or black
Or I bet odd or even
It’s even money

I bet first eighteen
If the number will be low.
That’s even money
 
I bet last eighteen
If the number will be high
Even money too.

I win two for one
If I bet on the dozens
Low, middle, and high.

There are column bets
These pay two for one also
There are three columns

And you have line bets
They are bets on six numbers
Paying five to one

You have the top line
The zeros and one, two, three.
That pays six to one.

You have corner bets
These are bets for four numbers
These pay eight to one.

Don’t forget street bets.
They pay eleven to one
These three number bets.

Want to bet a split?
They cover two numbers each
Seventeen to one

Those straight up numbers
Are the ones paying the most.
Thirty-five to one.

I will make my bets.
Here’s my money for my chips.
Spin me some winners!


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