Long Swisher Poems

Don't bother to warm up the church microphone
Because you already know the rhymes that 
I 'am about to spit is hot
you can see the steam come off the microphone 
every time I perform
Swisher house is...

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No Love in childhood, it's understood why we love our hood, 
Raised by the village so I feel it,
Afeni says a child needs knowledge in the realest,
Everyones a teacher, so I listen to hear it,...

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One slushy day, a Jolly fisher fishes
a wishing well, where he knows splashy fish is.
For Princess Tricia's favourite dish is,
a plate of little squishy fresh whitefishes;
and Tricia gets all she ever wishes.
Too selfy selfish to...

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In the evenings
was the rooftop,
swisher sweets and sometimes
something in particular.

say we were young
say we both knew better
play the saint, its O.K.
say that you felt it too

Was it not
the grooviest thing;
our outrageously shameless,
fist-shaking dream for two?

say...

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when the sun begins to fall
and the children are settling down
i pour myself a captain and dew
grab my poetry bag and notebook
slip out the back door
cuddle in a lounge chair under the summer stars
look up...

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