Goodbye Chicago Poems

Three or four blocks from ground zero,
I watched the fires after a fallen hero.
It was one long black night in Chicago.
"Goodbye Martin"; To new heartaches,...

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Why's everyone leaving
  Where they all going
  O.K - too much crime in the summer
    but not so bad when...

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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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There was once a road not taken for complicated reasons
They say that for everything, there is a time and a season
He was nineteen when he...

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The postage stamp had now fallen off the envelope but not lost. Tucked away in the box was the stamp that authorized a letter from...

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I had very little in common with the strangers I met on Clark street.           ...

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Growing up just outside the CHI
I would spy
Always wondering what lied inside
Waiting for my turn to slide
Then I got the call homie Bob had died
While...

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Another body dropped as the evil ran through the night 
He was on a spree to start a war 
The screams blistered the silence 
As...

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