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My introduction to politics
was through Tupac
But I didn't know it
Poet unknown
Yet, still, I loved Biggie
he spoke and
the hooks held me
Unfortunately
forbidden
I was disallowed
I'd never been to Brooklyn
but I felt it
When I ran to the store
It was because I knew that
the gangs wouldn't chase me
Too lazy
Street justice was
fast or faster
I was faster
Years prior
I had desired
that radio DJs would just
stop fucking talking
at the end of the song(s)
Yet they kept on
when I would press play
or pause
on my cassette
Those ones that I stole from my Mom
Belinda Carlise was
unimportant but repurposed
She probably doesn't know to this day
Under the Bridge!
Under a smidgen we're told
defined
and so far away but
closer than I could know
My words are write
and wrong
Am I self and
unsuspecting?
Am I lying to myself
or just telling that
I felt older
when I was younger
than I do now that I'm
Old
I was perfect
because I couldn't be
anything else
I was
ineffectual for a time
until I learned
Harry Belafonte tapes
were as important
as Sublime CDs were
I was on
the wrongest street
But the writest
think
The things that I wanted to say
remembered
that they've been unsaid
