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Life on the Streets: HOMICIDE

A place where the ingredients may be raw and spicy. Not for those under 18 or otherwise innocent-minded.
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Life on the Streets: HOMICIDE

Postby andrew. on Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:40 am

mixed nuts, shaved fish
on the prowl, red-blue
brimstone beat. yells
the kids "FUCK OFF!
police-maan".
tells the cop he aint
wanted, tells the cop
the world is alright.
crime is the streets,
the streets bloody and bruised;
crimson washed in sterile blue.
the scene has been disturbed,
the city wants the body.
the policeman goes home-
fucks his husband.
the kids grow up,
maybe his, maybe not
the bars don't discriminate,
the city sleeps in sirens' blessing.
goodnight sweet baltimore
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Postby andrew. on Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:41 am

is this the appropriate spot for this? has coarse language, whatever.
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Postby bluejay on Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:32 am

f***ing A, brother. This is the perfect place for this typ thing. Keep 'em rolling.
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Postby andrew. on Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:01 am

added "and bruised" to the "streets bloody" line. Further enforces this idea of the city being a sentient thing....i think, and goes well with the following line- in terms of phonics.
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Postby bluejay on Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:24 am

The last line cracks me up, after going through all the mayhem.


My kind of town:

:bang Baltimore
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Postby VeroniCat on Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:36 pm

This is very good, but I could be missing something. I'm not good at like poetry and stuff. :**:
...and a door opened unto the heavens, and I walked in. No. Wait. That's not right. I mean an angel dropped out.
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Postby andrew. on Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:39 pm

the stairwell is our prison and our home.
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Postby visitor on Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:52 pm

No, not for me. I don't get the sense that the narrator has set foot in Baltimore, much less understood it. If I'm wrong about this, I apologise.

Baltimore, mmmmm, a deliciously masculine and bewildered city.
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