People are told to pay their taxes
When actually it's just one of the facts
That there's nothing in the Constitution to support that
Television pumping visions constantly to the brain
That you need either the knife or the pill when you feel pain
The truth is that the body was created to substain
And the pills that you take [...]
Park Heights
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32 years poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. I currently live in Waldorf. I have published a poetry book entitled, Here I Am. I am also in the middle of completing my second poetry book which is entitled, Morality Clause. Please check it out at http://www.lulu.com/parkheights215
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This is a fictional letter from Sgt. John Sawyer, currently serving in Iraq to his loving wife Denise back home
Dear Denise,
Hello my love, this is your husband John.
Sending you all my love and regards from the Middle East.
I'm taking time to write this letter in the middle of this war going on.
Thinking of you helps [...] -
George W. Bush and his family are the worse kind of people
The image of what happens with too much power
Turned on his citizens
Subjecting us to our darkest hour
We’re not even the first to wear the scars
Their family has had a hand in all the wars
And most of us are too busy worrying about cars and [...] -
Politicians speak on what they plan to do
I’m here to speak on what we’re going through
Unemployment, homelessness, same–sex marriage
A soldier’s deployment… his wife’s loneliness and despair
Teenage pregnancy and abortions no longer a shock
The crime rate in cities reaching all time highs
They blame it on hip hop like they blamed it on rock
People getting high just [...] -
So begins the story of a young boy born into a cold land
Born to a prostitute and her pimp of a man
Born into a world where no one cares to lend a hand
Yet still innocent because he doesn’t yet understand
Some years have passed… he’s just turned 5
His momma is just happy he’s alive
Because she passed [...] -
This is a made for TV war
Boldly announced to the world like the fall lineup of a major network
It's leaders… happy to tell us what was in store
The season premier was highly anticipated
Bomb blasts broadcasted in high definition
But even 1080i couldn't show us why
I wonder how the Nielson Corporation would have rated it
Reporters embedded with [...]
