The City

What if cities were wildlife preserves for humans

 

The only specimens that exists there

Are ones that are going or went

extinct in the wild

 

What if cities were wildlife preserves for humans

 

San Francisco

New York

Oakland

LA

All places where people are born and reared

Into captivity

 

Going somewhere else

Traveling the world

The same as escaping into the wild

 

Some of us are too rare

Some of us have forgotten how to adapt

Some of us were already at the brink

Some of us are the last

 

What if cities were wildlife preserves for humans

 

The city

 

Some say they can’t make.

 

Some don’t know

 

It’s the only place they can survive.

 

©Christopher F. Brown 2011

 

 

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Ghetto tribune

 

 

With a mind like Michael And a soul like JJ

They hate me

 

Cuz

 

Thelma and I both though Keith was hot

 

Moms always dropped knowledge that would have made Florida's head spin

Wilona was my cousin and my sister her twin

 

My dad’s name was James and he did cut out after a season or two

 

Death not of natural causes

 

The one that swept the 80's ghetto

Victims soul dead

Walking zombies

Hearts retarded

 

Had hella neighbors named penny

Still do

 

By the time she was 15

had a baby daddy that was 20

and more than a few

 

A lot of em still trying to escape the ghetto but the rattings are slippin

And the government is losing interest

 

They say the world is going broke

But money the ghetto never had

 

They say the world is at war

but in the ghetto every day is won

 

We tell the children to go to school and get and education

but worldwide its worthless

 

I look at my nephew and my godson and pray

The day never comes

They ask me

The correct way

To hold a gun

 

©Christopher F. Brown 2011

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Sheep Dog

You’re worse than the people

you think

you are different from.

 

You see the external forces driving the mentality of the heard.

You strike left.

You strike right.

Whichever is opposite.

 

You become opposite of the heard

to be different

to be separate

 

Not

 

Because it is what you like or even desire.

 

You rail against one thing one day

another the next.

only  to accept them all when you actually try them.

 

At least the heard

in their mindless obedience

is true to themselves.

 

They like what they like

dislike what they don’t.

Even if they are beguiled to do so.

 

You

 

You wait for them

 

Only then can you make your mind up.

Only then can your feelings speak to you.

 

Only then can like what they don’t

love what they hate.

Instead of trying to be different just be you.

Instead of following the left or right path make your own

 

At least then the truly original would respect you

At least then I could look into your soul and see

 

You.

 

And not just the inverse, opposite of everyone else

You claim not to be.

 

©Christopher F. Brown 2010

 

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