Long Shootin Poems

a force for good
(for john coltrane and ahmed obafemi
based on ‘trane’s treatment of ‘nature boy’)

“…I wanna be a force for good…”
		-John Coltrane
 
…there was a man…
a very brave, enchanted man…
and he spoke of many things…
peace...

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IV Foreign affairs

« Putin, I’m rootin to stop the shootin. »
« So am I ; about time you started too. »
« Started too! Me, I’m faster than you. »
« Not start too, you fool, but Start One, Start Two. »
« Start one, start two ? What...

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Beneath this insane feeling of rejection- i still love u/
Beyond these walls of my crazy imagination- i still search for u/
Letting u go was da worst decision of my life/
I don wanna accept da fact...

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Your innocence has blinded you from the real world makin any sense, 
what's that? Say your done with it..?
Na you ain't done with this 
were not even to the second quarter ya idiot, 
you see...

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TRIMDON GRANGE EXPLOSION   *  
( 16 FEB  1882,  DURHAM,  ENGLAND )

Noo March is heor and the wind she’s cowld  *
But the sixty nine sowls divvent feel it ...

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Jack was sitting poker faced 
With bullets backed by bitches.
Neal hunched at the wheel 
Puttin everyone in stitches.
He was braggin 'bout 
This nurse he'd screwed, 
While drivin through Nebraska. 
Said that when she came,
She honked...

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Was it my red eyes? That had me forewarned?
In the mirrior I can't see my face, hands or forearms
My souls gone till dawn, because this is what the bottles drawn
My drools thickened, my rooms spinnin,...

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I was born on March 1st 1953.
I was the only male newborn in that nursery.
I also have four younger sisters in my family.
An older or younger brother wasn't in the cards for me.
From my very...

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My old friend called today,

30 years now he's been away.

jus said hello n he is well n fine.

n through the years,our friendship,

he's kept,in his heart,n alive in his mind.

recalling the days we ran hard,wild, n...

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ur love is like the ocean,
and i wanna take a splash.
and hopefully drench,
everything in my past.
feeling like the hearts in the cartoon,
into your love enriched cacoon.
Babygirl your like a star,
and im shootin for you first.
trying...

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acid rain...heavy metal thunder and lyrical lightning
scattering and scrambled frazzled and frightened
up against the wall i bang my heart against the bricks
bad men shootin bullets but they all miss
just made the top of the devils...

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Long time ago in the old wild west
A hunter raised his gun, he was a 
Round up cowboy, and shooting 
Was his fun

He saw a fat wild turkey come 
runnin out the scrub, he thought...

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.LIL BOI IN DA HOUSE

MOMMA LAYIN ON DA COUCH

JUS GOT DONE SHOOTIN UP

NOW SHES PASSED OUT

BOI SAYS MOMMY WAKE UP

BUT SHE DOESNT MOVE

HE SHAKES HER N SHAKES HER

BUT SHE HIGH ON DAT JUICE

STILL NO SIGN...

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Was I maudlin over our breakup? For a minute.

If I think of you now, it’s like a slideshow of unflattering images.

At the time, my breakup buddies reminded me you were a bad
choice - like a...

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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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Peace-loving peoples of the world are demanding of you, Mister Putin,

That you cease at once this murderous and needless shootin'!

Why can't you and others of your ilk leave other people alone?

Don't you have a soul?...

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He hangs his rope and ties it tight
His chaps are black and yellow bright
His spurs they jingle on his boots
It's the definition of a cowboy's suit

It's the tons of pyro shootin high
It's the buckle waitin...

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(Title) This Generation
 (By) YO'LOO
 (My real name) Yolanda Alfred
 (About) The Generation/World/Community







 This generation... should be a separation,

 because... people shootin & killen but... the killer still have celebrations.



 I'm literally tired of the...

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Little girls are shown off simply for being pretty.
Though little boys are just as handsome
as girls are pretty,
boys are in a rut--- but,
they learn how to strut.
They teeter, they totter, they swagger.
They pee farther and...

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It’s way back in the eighties, of  the eighteenth century,
the bad man Johnny Ringo, did stalk Arizona free,
from Lukeville  to Sonoro, he dealt his darkest hand,
and sought to take the silver, from outlawed...

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Well I Declare – If It Aint The Bounty Man

Well I declare!   When I was young and free
I slung 2 guns from about my waste and charged a fee
And shot anything in sight...

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This free totin barn shootin lowse
Once hunted for a mean growse
I wanted a bigun for my spowse
I ain't talkin bout no widdle mouse
On a sultri afternoon besides my howse
I went huntin for some tasty jowls
I...

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Lead poppin
Heart stoppin
No option
Either way by the time they're 18 they'll have no oxygen
No sympathy don't box slaughtered children
How can see a child murdered and no chills send
They're reckless approach is militant
Layin bombs settin off...

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CHANGE

Change mus come
No matter whey yu tun
It ah go come

Even if yu run an’ hide 
Or tan an’ criticize
It ah go com’

Yu decide fi hav sum fun
Shootin off yu big long gun
Mekk some life dun
In...

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Young and free  
what we're supposed to be

They're out all night in risque heels
shootin whiskey till noone feels

Dancin with men twice they're age
embracing the power of youth, center stage

No cares in the world, except...

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