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Theliterarythug
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Registered: 11-2007

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Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 06:11 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

In a threshing floor of ghetto concrete,
A Sunday skipping circle afternoon
Church around a Woolworth jump rope backbeat
Blessed was the world within it’s room

A gospel was around their up-down motion
A word of depth, humanity, love and thought
A testimony of bonding and devotion
A scripture that they learned and felt and tought

Here in this jump rope circle was their solace
From men who aged them far before their time
And fate that left them in this project furnace
And gave them pain to great for verse or rhyme

But if they burnt your ropes from hull to strand
May you jump together in caanan land
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Cynique
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Registered: 01-2004

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Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 10:33 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

You are, indeed, a literary thug. :-)

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