Long Fightin Poems

A Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
 
By Elton Camp
 
 
	“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city.  “We git...

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Have you ever had to live with a father who abused the ones you loved?
Ever had to sit back and pray because it is just too much?
Ever had to live up to the potential of...

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Next day no water supply

Child looks up to me with searchin eyes

"Daddy I'm thirsty" in a weak voice

To a papa I don't have no choice

The Good Ol Boy can't hear her voice

 

And now I'm...

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Next day no water supply

Child looks up to me with searchin eyes

"Daddy I'm thirsty" in a weak voice

To a papa I don't have no choice

The Good Ol Boy can't hear her voice

 

And now I'm...

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SOMETIMES I FEEL STUCK W/NO POSSIBILITIES
LIKE IM ALONE CUZ NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME
I KNO IM RARE CUZ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE ME
MIMICKIN IS NOT AN OPTION CUZ DEN U'LL HAVE 2 GET INSIDE OF ME
FLOW...

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a young man with tounge lashed and lunch packed/
heading to a regiment, sprung on one flag/
swearin to fight till his own lungs crack/
preparin for life cuz he won't come back/
attached to the loud sound of...

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Friday, Friday, Friday September 29th, 1995

A young lost child was born in a small cold empty room

She was born in a world of confusion

Now she's at the age of 15

And still don't know what to...

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Verse 1:
Taking money out my pocket,
Spendin how ya wanna.

Want the money and the fame,
Screaming california.

But I can't do these things.
Baby if you want me,
You betta act like it.
'Cause I don't wanna leave.

Chorus: (2x)
I'm inside your...

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There's one simplle rule that a writer should know,
that is when you can tell and when you should show,
so armed with this thessis I took up the task
of one page of showing, not too much...

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I've heard that love is great and love is good
It doesn't exist where I live in the hood
There's fussin and fightin from dusk to dawn
It's a rare occassion to experience a calm

Wonder what it fells...

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How fast the years did clip and leap away,
till your Earth orbitz count ninety decades
+ uno journeys orbited around mister sun
encompassing metaphorical magnum opus
figuratively paginated bound compendium,

whereby chronology Boyce Brandon Harris
also known as papa san...

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At my own admission I've grown black hearted, Find it hard to cry for the dearly departed. I've started with myself and made no difference...
my reflection ain't healthy I've been plagued by ignorance. An insignificance...

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this is my final goodbye
but i aint gonna cry
its my final goodbye
but i aint gonna cry

99 problems i should be renamed hova
i use tot think about u but u never came closer
you or mom couldnt...

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His old pickup truck was parked in front of Kevins Bar again.
   While he sat inside drinking with an old time friend.
As he got up to pay his tab he noticed something wasn’t...

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Let me slow it down for a bit and let my mind relapse, let me get myself together 
because my heart collapse....After I seen you I had to ask whats good, I'm tryin to 
get...

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Before she ascended to heaven, she wrote a letter,
For the loved one's who didn't understand her struggle;
For the same ones didnt get to know her better
She was a lost sheep in a field without it's...

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Take time
Don't lose yourself today, no
Make time
to let yourself slip away, now

And everyday that I follow
I try to realize
I'm doing what I have to 
just to try to get by
And everyday that I swallow
another ounce...

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Soliders overseas in Iraq
Many lost their freedom
Cause they lost their lives

Families over here in America 
Angry about that
No words to spreak to apoligize for that

Hey whens this gonna end
Whens enough blood gonna shed
Whats it gonna...

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I used 2 think I know what I wanted out of my confused soul/
I want not what I have ,I want what I never had/
I want my time 2 stop, yet it still continues 2...

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Ppl aroun my age disgust me
All dey kno is $, guns, appearance & Frontin
Fightin, wolfn & cussn
Outside w/no house trainin like dey mama aint tawt em nun
Dey jus show dey butts 2 c who lookin
&...

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you gotta join in the struggle for the ill-gotten gains
of the movers and the shakers on the streets Wall and Main
we will take what we are due like the Sioux we'll count coup
on the heads...

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i hate to say it but it needs to be said, noone lives forever and inevitably we will all be dead. and sent to heaven or hell wutever it might be, nobody really knows but...

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FRIENDLY ADVICE


make sure you appreciate what you have whens it there.

show them there worth make em feel that you care.

love them with every ounce of your being.

even more when your fightin and disagreeing.

hold them when...

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FRIENDLY ADVICE


make sure you appreciate what you have whens it there.

show them there worth make em feel that you care.

love them with every ounce of your being.

even more when your fightin and disagreeing.

hold them when...

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As we sit here on the couch
In each others arms
We wait an see

Do we have that spark?
You know the one that all are friends are fightin to.
For, Bore the one we can create

That little smile...

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