Showing posts with label The Hood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Hood. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Down in the Hood

 Down in the Hood

 

The ghetto is now called the hood

To Edgar it is a place no good

The train travels on through

On it’s way to the City

From the window an excellent view

None too pretty

Garbage and graffiti he does note

“Unpleasant” his word to quote

 

Edgar is a racist

One of the elite

Law and order I insist

Law and order on the street

Edgar reads the news

It tells of the high murder rate

Let ‘em all sing the blues

His thoughts of vicious hate

In college he learned of Darwin

And the history of the human race

Edgar thinks it’s not a sin

To be of the superior race

 

But Edgar has a secret most grim

Never dared to tell another soul

The sisters really attract him

Almost make him lose control

His pale wife

Is plain, frigid and cold

Far past her prime

Proper and old

But these large ladies how they strut

Tight blue jeans with a bursting but

Large breasted women savagely wild

How his heart beats with thunder

A contradiction unable to be reconciled

Why it is, a mystery of great wonder


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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Mother

 Mother

 

Love is all

 

To see you laying in silence

Powerless except for prayer

Fighting death in defiance

Do you know how much I care?

Love is all

 

When you read for me before I slept?

When you dried my tears as I wept?

When you listened to my words of sorrow?

When you gave me hope for a better tomorrow?

When you denied yourself to lend a hand?

When no one but you could understand?

Love is all

 

The sum of your deeds immense

Most of them given at your expense

Love is all

 

Cancer gnaws at your body consuming the bone

We are there so you know that you are not alone

Soon God will give a beckoning call

Love is all

 

Flowers, cards, a casket of finest wood

Tears of sorrow, kind words do you no good

You have left to a place of no return

Life’s most important message you helped me learn

Love is all

POLISHED FRAGMENTS

Poet To The Poor