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     Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 6702 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: N/A |
So long, National Poetry Month of 2008 A city aint just concrete and stone It aint material thangs alone It's people knowing who they are and where they come from praying shouting singing playing writing striving Soul and Spirit--those last Those --and dat River City Dance All up in the A to Z Folk wit Odede Flava Loc'd out St. Looie dudes and dudettes goin crazy Who each morning peeped, rising over the hills Of East Boogie Belleville and beyond The Sun Glowing like a golden ankh Shining on the jade green towers of Central High Mad Cool--they cooed and sighed And props to Vampure types who only spread Their wings and flew like bats When the sun sped West past Kansas City Skittered and twittered high in the darkling sky Twinkling twinkling little bats People mind and body Come on say "AMEN" somebody! Eidolons Icons Totemic magic in their very names Say Annie Malone, Homer Phillips, Wendell Pruitt, Julia Davis Say Mama Esther Dig that flick of the black firefighter Carrying the little white baby from the flames Trying to save and revive her Color struck lies shatter like glass Say People Good people all the same Not history but OURstory OURS! And the people are like a sable background of black velvet The stories glitterin on it like a billion billion STARS Stars like we all know they are My Mamma and Daddy and all you got Frankie and Johnnnie Lawdy Miz Georgia and Dred Scott The first brothers who came chained to the Frenchmen A shame I can't call their names (And if you don'tlike the weather here Wait a minuite it'll change) Doin' that River City Dance At the Children's Home Parade Aint that a scream I almost forgot to Give word ups and shoutzout To Take Five Magazine Afro American People doin dat River City Dance All over in boardrooms and City Hall The Art Museum Central Corridor and Forest Park Dark people Who have Big Shoulders Show much brotherly luv Who sleep light And know whazzup You can leave your heart here (Tho it might be underneath a rock) Dope River City got it A to Z In raps songs and chants In their call and response And the give and take of Da Playa's Poetry Slams Def Jammin people like Ole Man River Big Muddy Dissed and ignored Brown and eternal like a blues tale sad and funny Movin long slow Down with the flow St. Louis would not be the same place with out em Earth shakin Hip quakin Soft talkin believe in EQUALIZING LIFE CHANCES FOR ALL PEOPLE peeples Make ya feel good up in heah Smoove as Cold Chillin on the Planet Mercury These natives are friendly Give them time they'll love you though they'll never stop asking What High School you go to? Let me close my eyes and summon a vision of River City of the Future I see Straight bustin some pop and lock moves Boogalooing down Broadway, Lindyhopping on the superhighway, groovin, dancing ballet on Sarah and Finney, Ballin the Jack in Claymorgan AlleyCakewalking on Delmar, Gettin on the Goodfoot in Wright City, Shuffling along in Pine Lawn Kinloch, Meacham Park, Rockin' your world in Webster Groves and Welston, Doing the mambo in St. Charles in Alton Black feet on black streets got the beat in Compton Heights, Lindell Park and Mill Creek, Struttin up Grand and Washington after Dark Doin the Madison and the Charleston and the Hustle and the Slop The twine and the jerk on the St. Louis Hop As natchul born to the area as a St. Louis rollin stop Or a pig snoot sammich with potato salad on top No other city's name you can call Like St. Louis where you know one citizen you know em all Mound City Mashed Potatoes in Da House Out of Time and Space Da whole Town and da State and da world and da nation Gittin Jiggy wit Doowhachawanna and saywhatchalike Aaaa-iiiiight! Steppin light fantastic and fast Congratulate Celebrate Dape each other up right foine and proppa People good people Doin that River City Dance Chris Hayden |
