Inviorment filled with drugs , thugs and low down cats /
Fields ,dirt hills , tore down shacks /
A vicinity full of deceit and pain /
People use a ironic phrase, That cheap is gain /
It's still potential in the central part of the hood /
Where money is instrumental and it starts with the GOODS /
Don't matter the ethnic group /
They come to the neighborhood for the stuff /
Wanting to get high while our children die many of us in jail /
Children in homes without a dominate male /
Many of you go to church on Sunday /
What about all the good well on Monday /
Fields ,dirt hills ,torn down shacks /
Where the goods is crack /
Children die from being smacked /
Schools that failed , motherhood that didn't prevail /
Yes cheap is gain /
The goods is crack /
Better know name /
Jimmy j and a gang leader named Rocky
I wrote this poem with a friend locked into a way of life,There should be a picture on my site of a young black man holding a steam roller back. The steam roller is time , place and matter .......wrote in 2002 i know that word is spelled wrong tried to find the correct spelling just failed ....
love
jimmy
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- Jimmy J.
- Poetry, what is it? A poet what is that? I doubt its me ! To me poetry is a word description of life. No matter a good or bad life only the truth of life. A poet can only truly describe a life he lives or has lived. One can not write about drug addiction, gangs, violence, and despair if he or she has not dwelled there. I write things I feel because I have been there, done that and know what many people feel because I feel it. What effects the young today effected the old yesterday. Nothing really has changed when it comes to poverty. I write about black and white issues because I feel neither black nor white, because I refuse to wear color of skin. I write about the young because I never grew up. I write about the old because the years added up.
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