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    Picture Perfect . 2

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    Re: Picture Perfect . Week 2

    these slums were built for her
    Last edited by spokenoh; April 22nd, 2011 at 06:26 PM
    can I kick it?

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    she has to answer for innocence and apparent ignorance
    of cracked concrete and how hard it is
    hard like the bones of crossed arms, like callous
    soles, toes spread because a pirouette is worthless
    in a fight.

    keeps her balance, shoulders hunched
    back to a wall carelessly defaced
    graffiti--dark-- finds its way to her lips
    carelessly curled.

    bemused at her tutu --a sign carried around the waist,
    that says she doesn't belong to the streets
    she was only born on them.
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    Re: Picture Perfect . Week 2

    disrupted insights

    Why do i do this?
    take these pictures then leave
    she wanted a friend
    an hour at most
    couldn't understand what she wanted
    more like I refused too
    scrawling on a wall to stop the pain
    mother says it's her life now
    like thats an excuse
    father drives her around town
    concerned as he should be
    it used to be fun for her
    she wore a smile for the whole world
    when i go home will they remember
    the crazy tourist who came
    strange stories they told all about disapline
    working their child hard for cash
    do they all get a piece of the life
    with my absence i'm not helping
    she'll grow up in a path unchoosen
    look back one day, remember the moment
    when she stood outside the practice hall
    a stranger taking her picture
    now they all take photos
    these strangers who love her
    but the stage beckonds and bends her will
    still a monster after all this time
    if only an hour
    to scrawl on the wall and
    see the tourist again
    Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning.

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    Re: Picture Perfect . Week 2

    Deep, riddled staring.

    Streets scribbled, deathly.

    Sweet little fairy.

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    Re: Picture Perfect . Week 2

    plastic princess!
    little raven ness in the distance.
    plastic thoughts,
    served cold
    with an iron taste.

    home grown matrimony,
    if only she was lonely
    on the outside.
    she dies every night
    in the dreams she has.
    she calls out
    - but no lifeguard listens.
    she is lost,
    she is dead.
    locked in humanities prison.
    though will she ever find hope?
    in the oats she sows.
    I hope so,
    every child needs inspiration.
    Last edited by plan_b; January 7th, 2010 at 02:33 PM

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    Re: Picture Perfect . Week 2

    on the inside...


    see pavement & their cracks
    gravel loose beneath toes -
    a lego like pain.
    build it bob, build me a new
    life full of fireworks.
    colorful? only in too-toos.
    excuse my doodling hands;
    they lose control when i
    just let go...
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    she'll scrape skies
    one day
    climb from her box
    to embrace fire escape dance partners
    and do knotted widelace pirouettes for miles
    across phone line horizons.

    in step
    to the beat of a million feet hitting
    concrete in unison
    she's cheek to cheek with gridlock
    arms stretched
    like city blocks
    tiptoeing through burroughs
    to window shop for a spot
    where the music stops
    ...

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    the B-girl ballerina that just wanted to be a girl
    study in Julliard some day and see the world
    but this Ghetto is her home, nothing like Warsaw
    concentrating in this camp--tired and forlorn
    war torn streets that flourish under sombre lights
    Gunshots are the percussive backdrops, no sleep some nights
    she was made for this like the graffiti woven into concrete seams
    she was made for this like 110th street deferred dreams
    she was made for this like the other burnt sunbeams
    she was made for this like the models that become addicts
    learning how to recycle, reduce and reuse with a little practice
    Black girl lost that some white man would find attractive
    Black girl lost that won't be subservient and civil
    Black girl lost: the focal point of our candlelight vigil
    between Ghana & Washington Heights what a sorrowful plight
    days so dark can dim a future that looked so bright
    the urban melting pot went to rehab
    heard its trying to get it self off rocks
    what'd you give me the morphine on the shelf for Doc?
    and Gil-Scot Heron said the revolution wouldn't be televised
    the baby that had a baby stands there full of strenght and pride
    outlived a misogynist thuglife era and held her ground
    it was "Freethinkers" like Trent Lott that held her down
    move over Janis Joplin let this prove as evidence
    you've just been slapped by the New Black Feminist

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