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I told the pen, it kept it well,
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America the Proud...
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I am retarded.
I am artistic.
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I am a Skater.
I am a prune.
I am the devil
and...
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I...
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Some write to please themselves
Some write to impress that one special friend
You may...
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When stuck inside a world of doubt
When words you seem to be without
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A golden poem...
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It...
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Agile but, fragile
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It's A Style That's...
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and then silence is all that waits.
It is then that I fall down to all fours
as...
I hide behind a curtain
A curtain of shyness
A curtain of quietness
A curtain of fear
I hide behind the curtain of the ...
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He can literally put his...
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it...
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A world without time,
a feeble decrepit man with no
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A world without ground,
a white...
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Chapter 1: My mother meets a man.
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A one night...
Hear me!
When I cry out to you,
do you not hear the words
I let out with
exhaust?
The car you drove off in
and later...
I have come to realize
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Well this is quite a surprise.
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Now I...
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Fix my hair put on this make up.
I get to class... I gotta shake up the mix.
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I choose to be loud
Yet I have to be quiet to get your attention
Must I speak like a mouse to get you to listen.
I choose to...
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"The Reason I"
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i am tired of a world where
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they occupy,
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is the...
They hand us their creations
We can judge them
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Roots twisted, tangled, firm,
hold fast to the jagged rock upon the high cliff
her determined body
rebels, splintering,...
As I grow up,
(I never promised Peter Pan)
the imbalance of chemicals
try to right themselves into what
will be,
is me.
So...
It’s not for attention, it’s not for respect.
It’s for me, I need to speak my silence
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You...
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Standing before her mirror...
I BELIEVE people judge me, because of my color,
Because I am not Asian, Mexican or white,
I am just a YOUNG BLACK MAN!
...
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Dodging bullets and menacing glares,
Trying to survive behind a facade.
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Inspiration as I open my eyes
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Popeyes is my life
It is so awesome
Brings me so much joy
Chicken I cut with a knife
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In middle school,
my best friend in the entire world
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I think I knew it before he did,
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Dear God that walks a dead man, thy kingdom come.
What is it? Brujeria?
Meat n' bones for the dogs.
I'm already dead.
No...
Blue, clear skies where the fairest of the flock is marching alongside the wind
Purplish black thunder clouds singing with...
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Love is the thing we cheerish, love
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It was not her long, flowing blond hair,
Nor her smooth flawless skin,
Not her slim figure,
Nor love at first sight
Not a...
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I Am
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The Calm Before the Storm,
The Springtime When It's Warm,
Not Too...
I forgot the first time
I ever labored
to birth a poem.
I certainly don't remember
if my first paper tattoo
even rhymed...
Then before death, once became happy
once was sorrow, is now the glory
happiness is held near and dear
not broken and...
America the brave
Stands proud and tall,,
From sea to shining sea
We can get through it all,
When they first came
It was...
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Players were anxious
Fans were eager
Coaches were determined
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An act of giving
What is this?
I have no time for social work and “guided bliss”
Well don’t look at me
I have a...
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I love too much.
I love with a raging fire;
A fire that could burn within a touch.
A passion for which I know not where it...
I was never aware
That I was not the only one
Suffocating behind the contstraints
Of a mask of my own making.
That other...
Within in me I have the power to move mountains
One strike of the pen and a whole city disappears
Another strike and a world...
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Why assume you are bothering me?
Why are you acting like everything is bright...
There is a change.
All I can do is think about the change.
It is on my mind all of the time.
I wonder if it will be...
Breathe in
Breathe out
Close your eyes and just imagine…
What is wrong?
Everything.
Nothing.
I don’t know what to...
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you and go quietly like soft winds on a summer night
you can make me as red as as lucious blood
yet as blue as the vast...
I had a dream of being on my own
To fly like the words of wisdom my mother tells me
To run in the clouds
and bounce of the...
This happened recently.
I don’t know where my dream is.
But I can hear it singing
Somewhere…
Wop baba lumop a wap bam boom...
In the forest you can hear the whisper
A bright whsper of a stream
The calming mutter
It speeds up only to scream
For no...
How did he get there?
No one knows
To make things worse
He is being neglected by many
Before the day breaks
He tries to keep...
Give me that Ball
My orange and black isn’t a Netflix show or Halloween themes
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Who wants this-and-that all the time.
I could be my treasure for a moment,
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