Long Back in my day Poems

My days were short but God has lengthen them;
My body sometimes hurts, but that's because of sin-nature;
God is such a beautiful King;
Back in my day (I'm not that old);
As a child you always had to...

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Then I heard her footstep getting closer.

READER BEWARE DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE FOLLOWS

This time she picked me up by my throat and pined me up the wall,
screaming at me, finger in my face while smashing my head...

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Back in my day shell suits were the latest fashion 
And I made sure I wore my diamond socks with a passion 
The only sky I knew was the one up above my head 
No...

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Grass isn't  always greener on the other side born from poverty  Spanish-speaking English living  Nuyorican lots of siblings government living Brooklyn streets roaches in the cabinets rats roaming to get feed hand...

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Whenever I would go to my mother, 

Regardless of the bother, 

Prices of sweets, housing, jobs, 

Dangers on the street, or other bits and bobs, 

She would give me advice so bold, 

Before taking me...

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Now the crowd’s switching gears from shots to beers
We must collect unemployment 
Not so much for our enjoyment more or less because we can’t find a job
Back in my day I was a heart throb...

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I'm a blue collar worker who works outdoors 
and I'm also required to wear a hard hat all day. 
My exposed skin and face tan at a very fast pace, 
but beneath that hard hat,...

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Like a hypnotized maniac
on quaaludes and Prozac
still trying desperately
to get back to the nineties
17 not 19

still dreaming and
scheming to find a way 
to become their great grandparents
like back in the olden days
when everybody had to
do...

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In my bed I lay
Here I want to stay
Let my mind wander astray
In to an ordinary day.
 
My father persists
‘Up now, you will be late for school’
He greets me with another
Breakfast to go.
Pops is on...

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As a child we watched George Jetson face-timing Mr. Spacely.
We knew this would never come to fruition.
Our stereo players took an entire end table.
Videotaping was not even a future dream.

Tape recorders were enormously heavy and...

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Back in my day we had the radio on at my house in early mornings.
We gardened in the summer and ate the food all year round.
It was so much more fresh and tasty than canned...

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Some parents just let their children run riot
Then blame it on E numbers in their diet
I myself think that times have now changed
The children nowadays are somewhat deranged 

Children are screaming for no apparent reason
When...

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“Back in my day” his stories all would start
I’d  lean in close to listen though I knew ‘em all by heart
He was a living legend, one of Texas’ best
Not just another lawman with a...

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HOLLYWOOD SQUARES

most wouldn’t find names interesting, but I would
draw squares representing student desks.

i loved looking at the baby book of names,
my mother bought, in my thirteenth year.

so i’d put a name to each of these...

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From the smallest of handbells to bells that are heavy,
bells of all types make a large bevy.

Small bells are often the tinkling kind
like decorative ones in some stores we find.

There are ring-a-ling bells and bells...

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The Young and the Anxious
We are a new youth in an old world
We are constantly told to calm down
We are constantly told to relax 
Told of times “back in my day”
From an older generation who...

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back in my day
we had to play
there was not much
else to do for a kid

the climbing-frame
was a tree or two
if you were good enough
to switch branches

knees had to be grazed
clothing torn and 
medals were acorns
from...

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I followed another rabbit hole this morning and stumbled upon this article from ‘The Atlantic. I won’t give you the author’s name, though I’m sure a quick search on google would reveal it. There was...

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back in my day
there was no technology
nothing like nowadays

the calculator was 
considered cheating
in math class

in my day girls got hauled
into the principal's office
for wearing their skirts too short

we also had bullies and troublemakers
who started all...

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Halloween is coming soon
it's not that far away
But it's nothing like it used to be
way back in my day.

Part of the fun when I was young
was creating your own disguise
by using this and using that
you...

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Age 

Age is experience that’s what they say things were much different back in my day.
You lived through the good and sometimes the bad, there was never enough time to be sad.
We had very little...

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back in my day we kids were terrified of the green aliens
giant yellow eyes, long-reaching tentacles and pinching ways.
they sneaked up into our beds and curled around us in our sleep.
lying in wait under our...

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