Slumlords and Christians
...I
When my landlord is a slumlord
The sermons also mock God
"There but for Grace go I"
Helps see a plank in my eye
II
Here, no exposing of hypocrisy
Makes a difference to men, women, me:
Sex...
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Categories:
slumlord, absence, africa, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Doctors Particularly Biomedical Engineers
...Doctors (particularly biomedical engineers)...
really trolley train hard to keep track of patients
Eye tell ya we (spuds)
pulled up stakes after four yar
and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr...
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Categories:
slumlord, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Understand Where I Stood
...Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
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Categories:
slumlord, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
slumlord, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
Pillar of Salt
...Once on Cecil Place
fledgling flagstones freckled
like summer faces
in Septembers of taut cypress.
Now neglected planters are urns
for my young ashes,
crypts gaping silent screams.
Blistered d...
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Categories:
slumlord, memory, time,
Form: Imagism
He Once Said
...He Once Wrote
How quickly the vanishing
Where once shone the sun
Now only skyscraper shade
Horse drawn wagons
Once parked below tenement smiles
As rope baskets lowered with coins
Sent back with app...
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Categories:
slumlord, life,
Form: Free verse
Gone Before
...The sum of what has gone before
Bulldozed throughout a slumlord block,
Evacuated, emptied souls,
Gutted, barrel, lock and stock.
Then ring-fenced in a shield of steel,
Buried in a foreign f...
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Categories:
slumlord, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse