Long Hustler Poems

Fr. Time, thanks for coming back again today.

Well now, you know I always have plenty of time
for Ms. Integrity!

Thank you for that rather cloying and creepy response.
I talked to FireGod a few days ago, 
were...

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(Thinks) I Float like a Butterfly and sting like a tazer.
Mouth of the South, but my lips don't say (intelligent) 
words
Like Muhammad Alley Bin drive by shooting
Bin Laden with
delusions of g,
Being a lefty, I blame...

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POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS

Shark
by Michael R. Burch

They are all unknowable,
these rough pale men—
haunting dim pool rooms like shadows,
propped up on bar stools like scarecrows,
nodding and sagging in the fraying light...

I am not of them,
as I...

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"Got To Get It"

Bridge: Go out here and go get it(get it)
Don't make excuses
Your life is what you make it
Go ahead and choose it(choose it)
You got to eat and so do I
Let's go get this...

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It is not as simple as merely changing one's name
You must understand the cauldron before that came
And the hustler's hair caught fire burning into red anguish
And the water is disconnected to out the wish
Something about...

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Grab your gun, check the amo. Lock it back. Take a look out on
the world and fade to black. Go berserk. Lie your
conscience in the dirt. Let the pain and the anger do some
team work....

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There comes the EAST, against the SOUTH

The WEST against the SOUTH

Again the NORTH, all against the SOUTH

Just to use, manipulate and enslave 

our minds, One said music is all

I say  

The growth of a...

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I was a man, a cold blooded drunk, as they come.
I lived my whole life in a little house on my dad’s farm.
A broke hustler with a defunct bank account,
My career's future was always in...

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-Wit Beyond Measure Is a Man's Greatest Treasure-


Day by day I'm overcome with the ambitions of a man
Not worried about the cards I'm dealt, but how I play my hand
I know my personality and motives...

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The Hustler 
 
sun up ~ to sun .... down
racking ~ stacking ~ busting ...balls 
cues to leaving   ....  fast
            ...

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He stumbled in, as drunk as sin
with a limp and a nose full of red
He ordered cheap gin, and the blood dripped in
As he raised the drink to his head

He sat on the stool,and the...

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fight till the end
I can't sleep at night
cos responsibility is a score
to win 
the high ways knows 
my shadow 
cos laziness is never
an excuse 
for the youth got to grow
if a man is not alone...

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"Nothing Like A Hard Working Man"

He's a hustler 
By all meand
He told me baby
Nothing come to a sleeper but a dream(a dream)
I am your provider
I just need you to be my rider
Promise that you'll be...

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You can smell jazz, if you got hip to the sound, like on   “Camera Three” a  TV program in the 50s/ a 1956 episode featuring The Gerry Mulligan Quartet in black -N-...

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The Book of Proverbs deals with wisdom and instructions 
Its God's word on how to live a life of knowledgeable production 
Its a reflection on godly actions and godly behavior 
A wisdom driven book served...

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instrumentalists mind, I rested thought
employing it, only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded


Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was a man of varied pranks
one done on me, he scored, long ere acting...

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2007 How Much I Despise You

2007 How Much I Despise You

2017 How Much I despise You
Following 2016 the second worst year ever
Will 2018 be any better ?	

And what we have suffered
The darkness settles on the...

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Young, yes...Stupid, no. 
I've been through a lot. 
It's like a movie I couldn't bear to show... you. 
Fighting every day in the war of the po'. 
Got hopes set high; although society has my...

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A crazy day 

Masculine in the stature
Outstanding in reaching out
The goal crawling to the pilot point
How slow like a snail it seems
And it looks so blur like a dream

Crazy day,  oh thou crazy day
When...

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they're dyeing to be tested
got itchy trigger fingers restless weapons
this young boys are wretched
and with the ratchet they're reckless

its a sick progression
you can get hit in a split second
as the violence keeps progressing
everybody fetching weapons

but...

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the free state is actually not free
casting my line into the many manipulations
worked by dust devils and hierophants
gambling their grunt wages on my young ass
like cowboys on a cattle free vacation
unwelcome by all rational standards
it's...

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yesterday we used to pray
 today you say it ought not be that way
 I was born in the gutter my mother was a whore
 she sold her junk in the trunk in back of...

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CRY FOR AFRICA
Throw me the dough to survive the jungle
The mastery of persistent i tangle
Call not away from the basin sides
Am a believer that rain of blood is near
Who will carry our lamp
For it is...

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I. e., this unfortunate
     mere erred reflection,
     aye re: zine
     (pronounced Syne),
     cuz you Matthew Scott Harris
act like an...

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Pool's Prince Charming
by Michael R. Burch

this is my tribute to the legendary pool shark "Saint Louie" Louie Roberts

Louie, Louie, Prince of Pool,
making all the ladies drool ...
Take the “nuts”? I'd be a fool!
Louie, Louie, Prince...

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