Long Staten Poems

The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, 
Have recorded everything, which occurred, from top
To bottom, from sunset to sunrise,...

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Why does BDS (Boycott Sanction and Divest in Israel) have to do with the radical Islamic nation Iran and its terrorists group of Hamas? From the Ivy League East Coast university of Yale to even...

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While listening to Schumann’s “Arabesque” 
and “Fantasiestüche” for the Mozart B flat Sonata,
I feel the warmth and love that’s powerful within;
a moment of instrospection, a source of intervention.

I live in a wonderful country, beautiful and...

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The scent of Paco Rabanne Lady Million
Fills Macy’s in the Staten Island mall
I’m getting it for my beautiful girl birthday 
its her favorite perfume of them all

the weather outside the mall had change
and the rain...

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What a fool he is for hurting you
All this pain and heartache he put you through
All your love that he once had
He took everything good and turned it bad

How can he do this to you...

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With excitement, and hearts beating with anticipation
Five of us held hands...as if declaring, "We're in this together!"...
We sped upwards,..into the clouds,...or so it seemed....
Enclosed in a silver capsule...like amateur astronauts, ...
A steel and concrete world...

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Excited, and hearts beating with anticipation
five of us held hands... declaring, "We're in this together!"...

We rose into the clouds,..as fast as a bullet
In a stainless steel capsule...like amateur astronauts, ...
We looked at each another with...

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3 am.
The alarm clock in my head wakes me with a 
silent clanging.
Outside, the rain is falling so hard. It sounds like someone's
trying to break into my room.
Jesus.
It's Christmas Day.
It might as well be August...

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Every one I know has a girl friend
Every one except me
And that is why for special occasions
I don’t like to go by the family

Because they will always ask me
If she’s out side parking the car
And...

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While crossing Verrazano Narrows Bridge
recurring mem’ries of New York recapture 
history and civilization of the two boroughs
provide me with deep interest and emphasis.

Brooklyn in its old Dutch for “broken land,”
and Staten Island named “Staaten Eylandt”
named...

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I remember holding you 
while we lie in bed awake 
and I would hug you so close 
just to feel every breathe that you take 

and I remember you telling me 
that you don't want...

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Way, back me..
Git way back man
From now on there’s not gonna be no kissin, huggin or lovin, ya dig it;
Because we’re not juz your made up maids for U and ya filthy male friends;
Come on...

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I KNOW SHE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS LOVE SONG

As she slowly slips away I say
Now every love song I ever hear seems written especially for her and i
Not a lover bared, bedded or wedded
Nor those...

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(By the time of the shooting of
"The Misfits", the Miller-Monroe
marriage was in deep trouble.
The Pansy is Montgomery Clift,
The Tusker is John Huston.)

After the Fall

It started as a mental exercise. 
I wondered if an East-Side Jew...

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I KNOW SHE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS LOVE SONG

As she slowly slips away I say
Now every love song I ever hear seems written especially for her
Not a lover bared, bedded or wedded
Nor those who shed...

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The sweet smell of ultraviolet perfume
Fills Macy’s in the Staten Island mall
I’m getting it for her birthday
And then in my mind I begin to recall

Thinking of the first time that we met 
 The exact...

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Artist


It has all kinds of artist
All over the place
Some could draw a picture
Perfect just like your face

Some will make a movie
Full of action and suspense
And when you done see it
You have to go tell your...

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It was so nice to be part of this big celebration 
held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Staten Island;
roughly, I think, more than three hundred people
were in attendance to celebrate and congratulate
those deserving honorees of...

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Dear Papa,
Sad, my siblings and I,
Never got to meet with you;
You left us too soon,
Out in this cold, dark and unjust climate;
Out in the deep ghettos and jungles;
In the hands of conmen and wolves
In sheep's...

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A llegiance to no other VICE except a NEW YORK CITY ATTITUDE
B oroughs Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten island, take your pick
C ity that never sleeps
D isown your chewing gum on the sidewalk
E mpire...

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Rile up the rifling rowdies
at the Red River rawhide rally
A new Mustang Sally came rip-roaring muscling in
from the lower Staten Island end of Stalingrad
Treachery forged American made profit wad
Wearing a commie armband,
purporting to be party...

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forth of july

 celebrating our freedom
a flag on every door
many give their lives
for a dream worth fighting for

people  come together
hot dogs and bar be que
pools  and music
parade bands marching to

some fill with laughter
some...

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He decided that the only way to get to her
was to take a little stroll,
It gave him time to work on his line
and he wanted to sound droll.

He decided that the line he’d use
when he...

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Like an epic battle of warriors in the ancient times,
rhythms of defeat and success punctuate the line;
either one wins or loses the game doesn’t matter,
it’s sportsmanship, fairness and attitude of respect.

Super Bowl kick-off highlights Sunday’s...

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*I believe I've awoken the little red panda
donning five yellow stars on a crimson bandana
spreading hectares of jaded Jinping propaganda*

*She lives in a land of dragons and Maoist oppression
I think I'm becoming her latest star...

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