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Moment

Moment
So little
So tiny
Passes by quickly
Like a busy bee on its duty
Like a wind hurring for the north
Passes by quickly
Like a fly for its substience
Like a...

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Patti dropped her pants, turned away from the river, reached down and touched her toes, and squirted back a big spray of piss. The river...

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As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted...

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Arsenals of axes brought by the crate
Pedals increasing experimental
Trashy dissections of raw cityscapes
NYC rockers gone transcendental
 
Static blasts shredding the off-key high pings
Maracas hit toms...

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Liverpool

When night ends, the fog begins
Heavy as lead!
Shrouding the town:
Once grand
And home of grandeur.
The grand mansions
of old times!
Now in ruins: off white!
Harboring the ghosts of...

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Temperature dip
urban leaves turned
Autumn, sniffing around
for a place to settle
no Farmer's Market
in San Francisco today....

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“F Bomb”
By Nate Spears

I got the heart of a man name Malcolm
The visions of Martin Luther
The tongue of Emmett Till
The brains of Medgar Evers

Can I...

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Coming from where I’m from
By Nate Spears
Published 2013 in “Death OF A Rose” By Nate Spears


Coming from where I’m from
Every day is a battle to...

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Good people will place me where I serve best
And charge me with a most noble duty
Regardless of the weather I won’t rest
Bearing the task of...

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Akwa Ibom

A Green land

Where liquid gold is sand

Named after the Qua Iboe River

Flowing with life and beauty forever

Where men not only survive but thrive

Progress and...

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generic minds listen to generic music
have generic thoughts that are unknowingly abusive
watch generic things talk about generic things
gee this generic *****is spreading like a disease
better...

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The Chicago skyline.
You symbolize home.
You are me and I am you.

There you are Sears Tower!
Just like you I will stand tall and strong
Even through life's...

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Day by day we pray to stay alive, ladies, the face of this world is slowly changing, no longer do we need to hold our...

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Let's be real. Blues are the new crack and no one denies it, 
they reach basers with no sign of government confinement. 
This color kills...

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Sage grows wildly
Covering the mountain view
Mustangs grazing mildly
on the early morning dew

In the early AM
The wild horses mosey and roam
Light reflecting off them
A single tree...

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