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Language Arts.
Some seek shelter in safe places. Others destroy safe places. “If you don’t speak up, you wont be heard”. Kids meal please. Courage to ask the children of time space, and allow them to respond. Many weep for the little boys. Nevertheless silenced children become menaces to freedom. Menaces to freedom of dialogue, to liberty.
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911
Wife is taken. The husband did it. I saw a movie once. Where a wife ended her life insurance policy Without telling her husband. For she suspected her husband was plotting to kill her for the insurance money. The grace period before termination was hell. ..The countdown.
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In House
Aint nowhere to play. Yall go outside. Broken glass. I’m sorry sissy. The glass door of the dining room. The scars we remember. The people, they change
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1997
Sitting on the wooden dinning chair before the stove. Hot comb heating up. Blue haze and blue magic Holding my ear for dear life. I hate the smell of burnt hair Until I miss it.
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Cantaloupe
Write on me again. Write on me again. Ride on me again. Ride on me again. Rines on me again. Rines on me again. Be right with you.
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Yuppies
Purple and black. Red and burgundy, square toed clogs. My big sister Maelee was the grooviest. I aint feel one bit of the bad for stealing and wearing all her clothes. But clothes don’t talk to back to you. They don’t call you when they leave for college. Shoes weren’t there to tell you about…
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Shades of Dust
The sour spicy crunch of a hot pickle. I hop on my bike and ride to the neighborhood corner store. All fifty pennies in pocket. Tomorrow’s the first of the month. I’ll ask Momma Marie for a dollar Buy two fifty cent bags of penny candy. Quite contrary indeed.
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Railroad Runner
The problem with Simeon says. Simeon wants you to be his private dancer Nevertheless the big wheel keeps on rolling. Uncle Joe say he got a special way to pick his machine at the casino. He hasn’t been feeling well here lately.
