Song Urban Poems

Surviving with little money
Life really isn’t funny
Raining even when it’s sunny

Don’t wanna run this rat race
No chance of keeping up pace
Falling on my flat face

But...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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How? -- Pow
When? -- Then
Where? -- There
  Why? -- Die
  Who? -- You...

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TISSLER, TISSLER
SHELAYLA SPOKE TO
ASK HER SISTER.
TISSLER IS THE FOOD
STOWBOUGHT?
TISSLER REPLIED, WITH A SPARKLE
IN HER EYE, NO SISTER
IT ISN'T STOWBOUGHT.
SHELAYLA SAID, SCRATCHING HER HEAD
WHERE DID THESE...

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Walking from the 
      coffee shop
to 
the Rite Aid drugstore 
Feeling the weight of the past 
on my shoulders 
...

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WHAT HE SAW AS HE READ THE MUSIC
WASN'T WHAT HIS EARS HEARD
THEY HAD PRACTICED AND PRACTICED
THEY PRACTICED EACH AND EVERY WORD
A CALL FOR ACTION CAME
WHEN...

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You look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
you don't look like "Badmans" calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think what...

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(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I...

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Light streaming down 
on the asphalt homeland
The day is full of promise 
Sitting here in the local coffee spot 
I am surrounded by people with...

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Years ago I wrote a jingle for a real store.
They didn't know I did, but I did.




The soda pop shop
The soda pop shop
Be sure to...

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Welcome to the Motown Motor City,
asphalt carpet ghetto grind
Automated fated urban living,
everyday inner-city surviving
Hard mean streets handing out no pity,
sharpens perceptive razor minds
Last stop underground...

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Tonight we are calm
Not because we are armed
Tonight we are calm
Because we choose to be that way
Because we refuse the other way
Because we are after...

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lets shout it out 
lets move it to the streets 
bang that car spanked-out speakers
to the rumble of the mass beat  
 
now bass...

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Dance

Yet we didn't fall off
The earth still spherical 
Killing me with magic 
Vibes to show you off 
Should you be cynical 
It's allergic

A move always...

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God do I need a man?
I know I need a pair of pants
Levi Jeans
Like the one advertised
on Alicia Keys.
Pants that fit me right
Close to my...

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