Long Too cool for school Poems

When playtime was over my tiny hands tediously picked up Tyco toys, a fistful of three at a time. "Atta girl," my dad would encourage. This daunting task was heroically spared when his master hands...

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Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (an NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?”
Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.”
Leong...

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TING means “thing” said she who masquerades as my niece with the tongue stud and nose ring. 
We used to put them in our ear, now they put them anywhere
BRAH is new for “bro” and...

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Crying because I have to let go of you
Trying to conceal these tears, but they spill out
It’s complicated how I feel, you know?
Encountering situations that bewilder me and fill my mind with doubt

Making my brain...

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I leave the waiting room at the doctor’s office and walk outside
I notice a park bench and go over to take a seat
I can’t help but start to reflect------
      ...

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Sat beneath the stars we were, supping pepsi from a can
on the bridge near castle farm, just hiding from me mam 
Twas 10 o clock and fairly dark for kids of just fourteen 
But we...

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"I love my teacher."
"I have a great teacher." 
"My teacher is super."
"My teacher's so cool."

These words are music to a teacher's ears,
Exactly what parents and administrators want to hear.
Yet what do they mean?  How...

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~D!~

Wonder do I how bright ignites the light
And an eagerness to stay a falling leaf kind of free
Free to find out what may be in sight
As she holds hands with beauty and empathy

Wonder do I...

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Instead of breathing air--It is tears I take in.
I can feel them, taste them.

How does one taste their tears…
They slip down your throat when
One weeps on the inside all day.

It has been so long since...

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A packed lunch of sandwiches 
meant to take away the weariness 
that comes with going back to a set prison 
meant to change our lives. 
Friends are scarce. 
A definition lost to those I found...

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Steps up to the mic and loses his cool
acts like a fool, way too cool for school
flunked out twice 
wasn't raised to be nice 
but you better believe he can pay the full price 
with...

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15/04/2018. Slam Time Man


Im only a novice at this Slam style man,
So I’m gonna go hard on your so called Jam
Your slow n sloppy style make dissin you easy,
I’ll do it all day man, just...

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A lonely heart 
tears you apart
All I want is a fresh start

Breaking the rules 
like a fool 
I'm way to cool for school

Sometimes that's fine 
Until you step across that fine line 
It's just about...

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