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AS THE DAY BEGIN THE NOISY CROWD THE SOUND
OF PEN PRESSED CLOSE TO THE DOCKET OF NEWS
HOT OFF THE PRESSES WAIT FOR NIGHT CRAWLS TO
ENJOY CARESSES THE BUISNESS CROWDS ARE ALL
SO LOUD UNTIL THE TRAIN OF THOUGHT LEAVES
AS SHE ENTERS THE WRONG COACH MAKING THE
WRONG TURN AS THE LIGHT READ GREEN TO GO
SO IT SEEMS BUT HENCE NOT BE TRUE AS THY
WANDERING EYES PIERCE THE SOUL OF THE DOVE
BURNING HER FEATHERS WHILE IN FLIGHT SHE
APPROACH THE LEDGE AS THE MASTER OF THE GAME
SAY'S BE SEATED AS THE CASE OF THE DAY BE THAT
OF A HOMELESS MAN A KNOWN STAR OF OUR TIMES
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AS TUPAC BEGINS TO CHIME
THE GHETTO RHYTHMS JUST IN TIME FOR MS. TILMAN
TO TAP OUT A NEW HAT OF SUDDEN KNOWLEDGE OF
THE LAWS OF THE CITY WHILE THE NAACP BRIEFS
CAROL MOSELY OF THE HIDDEN AGENDA'S FOR THE
MONTH OF AN INDEPENDENCE DAY BRUNCH THAT YOU
THE PEOPLE MAY NOT ATTEND AN YET CANCEL A BET
WRITTEN BY MRS. YOLANDA NICHOLSEN 5-25-2004
2610 PROVIDENCE STREET FORT MYERS FLORIDA
RECOVERING FROM TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
WRITING BECAME MY LIFELINE GOD BLESS CHICAGO
AND GOD BLESS AMERICA
Well known sportsman, balanced views and commentary
Are the foundations; upon which he stands.'
And here is our list of winners:
Bernie Sanders, Brandon Johnson
Alexandra O. Cortez, Elizabeth Warren
Cory Bush, Ayanna Pressley
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlieb
Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris
O, you lucky duck progressives, you!
Your tour guide will be the hologram of Chicago's late Mayor,
Richard J. Daley
Who will show you his administration's 'crown jewel,'
its experiment in 'public housing'
The Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side
Cabrini-Green on the Near North
'Hizzoner' the Mayor will show you apartments in the cinder-block buildings
on the day of their inauguration, gleaming-clean and pristine...
... Then you'll view them a handful of years later
Boarded-up windows, graffiti everywhere
Gunfire crackling, drug addicts cackling
blocking entrances and stairs...
The best of progressive intentions gone a-glimmering
Give tenants something for nothing, they get ~ angry
"Why we gettin' this sheet"
Feasting on mirth why I'd collected
enough balance catering to the no
nonsense of tattered bliss taken so
soon so abruptly beneath a quiet calm
I'd bestowed hastily meeting my mind
in between my souls cunning tantrums of
a lesser me capturing my hearts gleaming
heavenly hue covenant within my palms
enticing a rather needful act of kindness
cleverly beckoning solace a dainty rapture
mesmerized beyond the glow of night time
medley a quickening naught a sudden rapture
hence fallen endlessly throughout the galaxy
finding hope hidden upon gravity embracing
willful hints of pastel sanity gazing into emptiness
employed a colorful yesterday removed so easily
an yet found again with the dawn dazed by
raised masculine eyebrows ruffled feminine
frowns gathering quickly boldly awkwardly
smitten with the sheer essence of truth
Mayor Richard Daley
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to three.
you were on your back where you wanted to be,
I had to wake you from your dreams, game changer,
there was Tonto but you settled for the Lone Ranger.
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to four,
you were dressed and heading towards the door,
I had to weather a storm, one which you might empower,
there was a slam and I was left in my ivory tower.
I looked at my watch and it was quarter to five,
you came back and like Daley, my spirits took a dive,
I had to admit that I didnt love you as often as I should,
there was a 'buck - up' needed, otherwise someone else would.
Time stood still, your hands went neither forward nor back,
you wound me up - reminded me of all the things I lack.
The service conducted by the Reverend Bailey,
Irene Paula Lee married Jonathon Daley,
Now thee months since that day has passed,
Things going smoothly, nothing aghast,
Until a letter came addressed to, I. P. Daley
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
A game that made your fingers throb
And Pacman was an intriguing game
A mission of sticking things in his gob
Who could ever forget Space Invaders
A quest to blitz the monster's before you were reached
And Donkey Kong was a journey towards the animals breach
The last 20 years have been a video game extravaganza
From the Atari to the PS3
And Nintendo and XBOX have followed suit
But made board games obsolete
They have fastly become the 21st century babysitter
Able to hypnotise your child with ease
And catapult them into a fantasy world
Where gladiators are killing giant cheese
This extravaganza is no laughing matter
We need to fight against this electronic regime
Instead of paying £39.99 for things like FIFA 13
It's time to take back our children
Allow them to be innocent again
And rather than locking them a way in a room
Take them to the park again
From early morning to the evening I be blowing mad L’s
24/h Champaign bottles ant got *****on it
Sitting up agents the wall Johnnin are asses off
Because I’m just a ketch up drinker
While Emmen ****s my mind up
I be walking for days
Yet everything stays the same
Clouded headed yet more enlightened then Daley Lam and his Buddhist gang
Ill see through all the bull *****you be fronting
Like tight dickeys, golden chains, studded earrings and diamond band watches
Don’t take this whiteness for weakness IV got more melatonin in my skin them most Africans
Ill keeps Sargentos 100% real with you
Hope you do the same
Because I don’t have a problem dropping mother ****ers like the *****out my intestines
Ill flush you away
And never think of your name
For names sakes ill for get your name like people for got the real reason Jesus came
Whooosh! Brrrrr...icy!..North wind in a steady gale blowing hard.
Whipping up the green sea into a jade and white peaked frenzy.
The water turning to an ultramarine blue on the misty horizon
Dappled clouds echo a scaly sea pattern in the lavender sky .
The cool Winter sun shyly peeking through the cloudy canvas.
Walking with the wind a woman with a whippet braces bravely.
Facing the salt spray and a wild sea the wind carries her along.
Burnt sienna sponge corals daley with red rubber spike corals
Empty crab shells crunched under moon crescent horse shoes
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