Duality
...Affluent rain pours down and appreciates
Permeating and gentrifying the land
Saturating quietness (i.e.black noise) by
A vociferous ‘shhh’ plundering space
to proclaim material knowledge...Meager...
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Categories:
gentrifying, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Memory Houses Soul Asylum Vestige
...Memory houses soul asylum vestige...
where complex edifice once anchoring
venerated Glen Elm demesne once stood,
now nothing except vinyl city!
I recall breathtaking, expansive, incredible
num...
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Categories:
gentrifying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio
Anthropocentrism Wreck Less Track Record
...while atop the surface of planet Earth humanity
all abustle skittering
to and fro, hither and yon
engaged in self important activity yielding profits,
sans blood, sweat and tears...
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Categories:
gentrifying, 5th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Not Such Great Expectations
...Paraphrasing Dickens
speaking of Great Expectations
through Pip's distraining voice,
Our worst religious weaknesses
and political meannesses
and self and other deprivations
are usually committe...
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Categories:
gentrifying, caregiving, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Times Square
...Times Square was once a sleazy place;
You wouldn’t go alone there.
When darkness fell, you held on or
You’d lose all that you owned there.
Today, though, it’s like Disney World,
With tourists,...
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Categories:
gentrifying, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Killing Her Song
...killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Unti...
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Categories:
gentrifying, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form: Free verse
Killing Her Song
...killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Unti...
...
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Categories:
gentrifying, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form: Free verse