Chino CIM 91708
The guards said I couldn't make it
But, there's one not talking now.
He not talking now.
They’ll find him in the morning
When you hear that siren howl.
I've been running through the bushes,
Through the canyons and the trees.
Through the trees.
I've been running for my
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Categories:
chino, death, heart, heartbreak, murder,
Form: Narrative
Letter In the Mail Written By Chino and Morgen
This morning I got a letter in the mail
It's only something my heart could tell
It was from the college of my dreams
Went inside the living room mom screams
I slowly opened up the envelope
Nervous could not find the word to spoke
thinking in my head I'm so stoke
Thinking in my head I finally got
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Categories:
chino, death, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
The Lonely Girl That Lived Down the Hall Written By Chino
Reminiscing the time when she cried
Her eyes are dry the pain is like razor blade
She corner herself trying to hide her pain away
People help her but she just push them away
The blues sky kinda clears the cloudy days
She is in the bathroom, crying over the sink
She is hurt because of her overthink
She just wants to
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Categories:
chino, depression, life,
Form: Rhyme
Chino
Chino
By Edmund Siejka
(from East Of Seventh, Local Gems Press publisher. Available on Amazon)
Waiting near a candy store
For something to happen
Chino pretended to be his idol
The 1950’s celluloid rebel
Marlon Brando.
While the film actor made thousands
The working class rebel of Second Avenue
Lived on cigarettes
And Coca Cola.
Chino wore a uniform
Black leather jacket
Dungarees
Black engineer boots
Hair
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Categories:
chino, life,
Form: Narrative
Chino and Chambray
Chino and Chambray
Forty years older than I,
Charles, in his tweed cap, stands starched
in gray chino and blue chambray.
For more than a year his broad tie
has let the same iridescent duck
fly against a vermillion sky.
Like a Vatican Guard
he oversees the parking lot
I cut through each morning
far corner to far corner
as I cleave two
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Categories:
chino, on work and working
Form: Free verse