Family Chicago Poems

YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT...

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U can 2 was on the license plate of my 
store manager brown Benz where a dead man 
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore...

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It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all...

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What is carnival without the music? What is carnival with the dance? What is carnival without the colors, what is carnival without a song? ...

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Caller Waller who was just about holding onto life
said that he didn't remember what had happened
when questioned by Police.Of course,that is understandable,
as the lad had...

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No arrests have been made yet,
but an investigation and manhunt for the suspects are underway,” says police spokesperson 
Col Mavela Masondo in a statement.
The family...

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For the New Year, humble, with love,
I make a wish for you, in this great time,
I send it on the wings of a white dove,
With...

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9/22/1983

I drove your shining,Cadillac, Daddy!
The lead car to the cemetery.
A stuffed bear, your Borsalino,
In the August, back window,fino!

You, in the hearse, a few feet behind..
Tears...

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Of my Mother and Fathers voices:
"Get up for school!"
Even then, I wish I had choices!


White blouse, blue jumper
with HFA, emblazoned in gold.
Brown braids tied with...

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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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       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while...

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_____Daddy Saved These______

It has been many moons since my 
Father passed.
Then came that day, I unearthed 
these lovely treasures Daddy had 
saved.

My very first pair...

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the health of the family
reflects the health of the city
broken families=broken cities
fix your family=heal your break...

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In our most beautiful, suburbian , breakfast nook,
Where I read so many joyfilled books,
With  the golden sunlight streaming in,
Is where my days as a...

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