Dedication Chicago Poems

FOR PAM


On this Spring night. I would love to take you to dinner,
Because,no matter what,you did treat me like a winner.
We both were as different,as...

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Indeed, a new Mayor you need…
As too many citizens, did die or bleed.

I watch my hometown, going down,
It makes me both cry and frown.

I reemember...

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One would think that I should have known BETTER.                ...

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         I dream........



      Of my joyful friends and I,
   ...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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On Wells Street in Chicago, is a sweet comedic treat.
Second City Theater for laughs and where many found their beginnings on plain stage, their life's...

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             * A Star Danced*


So ebony soft is indeed this night.
However, only to be lit by a dancing star.
I...

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Growing up with an angel that loved me.
Hovering close,with cane, walking.
Me, on a tricycle to the candy store,
Bright summer days I cannot ignore.

Though decades have...

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Once "City of Big Shoulders,"
 Stockyards and industrial concerns:
  A man's self-worth measured
   By muscle and energy burned.

Today the stockyards are shuttered,
...

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A Chicago Cubs-Fan Prayer Answered! 

In nomine patri et fili spiritu of Ron Santo!
Let us all give thanks for Ernie Banks! 

Let us play........, two!...

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rd In The 60's
By Curtis Lee Johnson 

In the rural South, sometimes life was cruel 
Robbery from the poor was legal via dirt cheap labor

In...

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I Chose The Right Path,
I'm Not Out Here Sellin Crack
Instead I Chose The Tracks
Playin Ball , I Will Never Fall ,
We're All Waitin On Our...

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