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O, For a Plenipotentiary

...Would that we had a plenipotentiary (Would that we knew what that was) Perhaps we'd empty the enemy's penitentiaries ~ by the end of the twenty-first century......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, fantasy, giggle, word play,
Form: Rubai

Not a Ballpoint To Sleep

...NOT A BALLPOINT TO SLEEP: I dare blame them for any detriment, As I care more to rubbish these bait flip men. So simple having their downfall predistined, Can sense struggles thrown from their ......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, abortion, adventure, judgement,
Form: Lyric

I Don'T Know Where I'M Going With This One

...Tides will lecture us, obtrusively, to our faces, & it's moments like these we unearth probity in outlooks and lookouts to crack the skulls of coconuts. some lives have small windows, & we, li......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, addiction, angst, dream, drug,
Form: Narrative

Country Cheap

...Quarantined in the corner of a country With strange tongues And worthless resources With cheap labor & cheap lives Cheap children & even cheaper sex Quarantined in the corner of a country Cra......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, abuse, angst, class, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Sounds of the Ghetto

...I can hear the wicked shots rangin', Hood stars on the avenues hangin', You hear the sounds of the ghetto and loose change in B.U.Ms[brothers under madness] metal cups clangin', That poverty n......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, hip hop, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme

Enough Is Enough !

...another child is lying in the streets dead another stray bullet has struck someone in the head today a mother breaks down and begins to cry because today one more child has unfortunately died the......Read the rest...

Categories: penitentiaries, black african american, education,
Form: Dramatic Monologue