Long Eastside Poems

Goodnight to our Rome with all your garrisons
and your streets that have become
as loveless as empty barracks.
For you I will never weep.
After all,
your Senators
Who made the deals
To keep the last
Last
And the first bored
and lost in...

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Gold! Gold! Dassel screamed: he had found gold! And so what we were told, he stuffed his pockets and told the fellas to pull him up.They had straddled a well rig used to clean shallow...

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Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying...

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Spoken Word: “Last Days in the Empire”
By Alejandro Diego Z. MA Psych

Is America the Next Babylon? 


They built this dream on a haunted field,
Blood in the bricks, but the scars don’t heal.
Liberty whispers with a...

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I didn't mind shooting him between the eyes one bit, what made 
it harder for me was how he pleaded for his life and said he had 
money and that I didn't have to do...

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Trinity Garden Bloods 4ever
Poem by Cmack Estevez 
I grew with friends from Elementary
I grew with bloods in Middle School that I knew in 2nd grade.
But I never screw up in the poverty North Eastside streets...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a hearty hut

On the rafter was a treasure kept
To a loned...

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Come on come on  everybody bounce bounce bounce with me
I am a hot stepper can't nobody hold me down so set me free
Everbody  Jam Jam upon sugar hill 
let your step be on...

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eastside, west side, uptown and downtown
riding the iron rail on the underground
the A, the B and the C
the F, the E and the D
the1, the 2, the 3, 4 and the 5
the underground rail where...

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Those winter evenings on the Far Eastside-
remembered still for the aromas of
potatoes frying and coal smoke-
intermingled in the crisp twilight air.

At just about dusk, every evening,
all up and down the street-
coal burning furnaces would be...

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She was young, I was old.
She was easy, information gold.
No she did not have a contract yet.
But she knew her school – Eastside Prep.

Had met her principal, he’d paid her way
For the conference where we’d...

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I thought it was you.
I was startled by the tangerine glow that beamed so brilliantly 
through the bedroom window 
on the eastside of my house.
That's probably not a good place
for a window.
Especially if I want...

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A restaurant chosen
For the family 
A group of seven
The table chosen
The meu in hand

We are choosing meals
Then enjoy a drink
Waiting for our food
Conversation begins
As we are waiting

Our waitress comes
Meals are ordered
Drinking tea, water
Enjoyed ginger ale
Waiting...

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