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...
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Categories:
penitentiaries, fantasy, giggle, word play,
Form: Rubai
Not a Ballpoint To Sleep
...THIS IS ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
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 predistine...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Categories:
penitentiaries, black african american, education,
Form: Dramatic Monologue