Born by the Hoods, Class, and the Tough, Cold Streets
...Bound by the Streets, where the poor Class prevails,
With Cold, hardened hearts, some are born by jail
With slicked-back hair and a comb in our hands,
We Greasers survive in a rough, Tough land
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Categories:
greasers, 6th grade,
Form: Couplet
An Innocent Time I Recall
...There's an innocent time that I recall
when every girl is Cinderella at a bobby-sox ball
each guy, a penny-loafer prince in a white letter sweater
and the jukebox music keeps getting better
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Categories:
greasers, dance, fashion, memory, music,
Form: Couplet
My Blind Date
...My blind date Frank showed up at the door,
his curly hair was slick with grease,
a mad plaid jacket topped his Bermuda shorts,
as a pink ivy-league shirt showed his neck warts.
I took one look ...
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Categories:
greasers, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
5 From 2000-2001
...Fronts
Has coldness
jarred this rain to life?
or warming earth
given it motion?
do leaves have a season to fall
or does the earth just need
a blanket in the winter?
Leaves are sprouts aga...
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Categories:
greasers, absence, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Greasemen of Britain
...The smell from the burger van hits my nose
It makes me hungry, I'll buy one I s’pose
“Two pound fifty”, the greaseman says
How effin’ much! The price nowadays
For a fat and gristle patty
To make...
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Categories:
greasers, food, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Sizing Up the Enemy
...ds to a nearbly pizzeria,
Our typical garb in those days was leather jackets,
With cut off denim jacket adorned with chains and iron crosses,
A sort of motorcycless Hells Angel's Wanna-Be,
Well we were bothering no one,
But a nearby table with 7 or 8 "greasers",
Were taking great joy at insulting my long hair,
Referencing me to some sort of Indian,
With some "impolite" remarks about Barry's nose...
We listened to this for a while,
Until one...
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Categories:
greasers, adventure, friendship, social, teen,
Form: Prose Poetry