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Post by smoke on Aug 1, 2005 12:02:39 GMT -5
ME AND 3 OF MY FRIENDS WERE ON THE CORNER CHILLIN' WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED BY SOME CROSSTOWN VILLAINS WHO CAME THRU ACTIN' WILD, SPRAYIN' PROJECTILES PEOPLE RUNNIN' AND SCREAMIN' FROM THESE BLACK HOODED DEMONS IN A BLUE CUTLASS SUPREME IT WAS ABOUT 10 OF'EM IT SEEMED IT WAS LIKE A BAD DREAM LIKE SOME GODFATHER SCENE OUR BEER BOTTLES SHATTERED AS WE RAN AND SCATTERED TRYIN' TO FIND SOME COVER WE WERE SURPRISED BY THESES "BROTHERS" WITH BLUE BANDANAS ON THEIR HEADS EYES BLOODSHOT RED NOW 3 OF MY FRIENDS LAY DEAD 2 WITH BULLETS TO THE HEAD I WISH IT WERE THE KKK INSTEAD 'CAUSE THEN REVENGE WOULD BE SWEET INSTEAD OF SHOOTIN' UP PEOPLE THAT LOOKED LIKE ME BUT THAT WASN'T THE CASE MY FRIENDS BLOOD SPLATTERED ON MY FACE AND THERE WERE SHELLS AND CASINGS ALL OVER THE PLACE BUT SOMEHOW I HAD BEEN SAVED I ESCAPED UNSCATHED ONLY TO WATCH 3 CASKETS BE LOWERED TO THEIR GRAVES AND LIKE THE RINGS OF SATURN IT WAS A NEVER-ENDING PATTERN WRAPPING AROUND THE STREETS BODIES COVERED IN SHEETS AMBULANCES WAIL, MOTHER'S HEARTS FAIL POLICE CHALK MARKS THE SPOT OF ANOTHER SAD TALE SO NOW THE QUESTION THAT LIES BEFORE ME IS HOW WILL I CHOOSE TO END THIS STORY? DO I SEEK THE PEACE BY SQUASHIN' THE BEEF AND RISK MY REPUTATION OUT HERE ON THE STREETS? OR DO I GO OUT AND AVENGE THE DEATHS OF MY FRIENDS AND START THIS VICIOUS CYCLE ALL OVER AGAIN?
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EbonyPoet
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Post by EbonyPoet on Aug 3, 2005 5:40:55 GMT -5
A powerful written piece and it asks so many questions Do we repeat this cycle of life..For there are te who sit by and watch us destroy our own people..Great scribe
EP
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