Best Wrong Side Of The Tracks Poems

Woke up this morning
 on the wrong side of the tracks.
Left out leaving for all the right reasons
 and all the wrong facts.

Caught a ride with a traveling preacher
 in a beat up van.
Said he was on his way to heaven,
 but he had to...

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KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES 

These here are the indisputable facts
I was born on the right side of the tracks
WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased
If not they wouldn’t have minded becoming deceased

They had big cars, big bucks and big...

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More Than A Glance

                                   How is my worth defined,
  ...

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- - - Chapter 1: Early Days - - - 

My father was a rich man, la, *
Though schooled in poverty, (1)  
As such he seldom raised his head, 
Displayed humility.
The center of the ‘Dust Bowl' years, 
Just thirty miles from home.
And children, seniors...

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Have we fallen through the cracks
coming from the wrong side of the tracks

Rather living somewhere inside the divide
for no physical locality do we reside

If you could cup my passionate spirit inside your hand
Perhaps my ambitious tenacity you'd understand

And with that same hand write our fate...

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A petrified conjunction(?)

what a strange day...
for a martyr of missing time
born in the urn grove
among the burning embers
born on the wrong side of the tracks

what a strange day...
for an unknown hero
living in his restless chamber 
his head like an ice-breaker
his uniform of ivory tears

what a...

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Why Do We “Choose” Whom We Love…   And Ignore Others?

Why do we often “choose” those we love… 
And ignore those we don’t?
It’s a good thing that Christ doesn’t do this!  He won’t!

Far too often,… People attending church today…
Will many times “choose” whom...

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a stones throw from hell
around the corner from jail
big city of dreams
and small schemes for mail
we touch and go in the 'hood
and it don't look good
young brotha at the park
the little engine that could
the wrong side of the tracks
ya little puffs of smoke
aint from the...

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Against a rafter,
the forlorn curtain sways reversed -
the wrong side of the tracks;
awoken in a death-dream state
and it sighs.  A sigh so shallow, so depressing
that the window with the eye impressions groans
and creaks open to the winter air of summer,
then forgets why it opened
and...

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Life wasn’t that pretty 
When she was a little girl 
The wrong side of the tracks 
In this hard hearted world 
But when she grew older 
The men gave her the stare 
A very curvy figure 
And Monroe blonde hair 
Working at the café 
Till...

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I grew up on the right side
          Of the wrong side of the tracks
I hit the ground running
          With no thought of looking back
First I ran from...

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The saddest story I’ve ever read, I read on Christmas day.
About a man who’s hurt, would not go away.
He was from the wrong side of the tracks but that didn’t make him any less a man,
He had a wife and a little girl and he...

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I walk down memory lane.
 It was just as I had left it.
 Garbage here and there.
 The smell of alchol,
 Mixed with the ever slighest bit of rotten garbage.
 It was utterly disgusting.
 But this is where I had grown up,
 On the wrong...

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It took him two trips to set it all up.
He kept it simple just the way 
he thought she'd like it.. 
A basket of fruit and ritz crackers
ham and cheese sandwiches,,,
and her favorite
a giant wedge of orange chocolate..
He did splurge a bit
on the bottle of...

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I've got 99 Dalmatians

99 problems

But a b###h ain't 1

Are simply Black or White

99 shade's of grey

Luckily I can't count to over a 100

Otherwise id have 101

Come from 8 miles away

Wrong side of the tracks

No street cred

Get stage fright

Battle getting it up

Can only spit while flipping...

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