I guess no one likes poetry, oh well*nt


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Posted by freeleonardpeltier at bgp01113894bgs.westln01.mi.comcast.net on July 20, 2003 at 23:55:28:

In Reply to: If you like poetry read this posted by freeleonardpeltier on July 20, 2003 at 22:34:33:

: This is a poem by Patrick Rosal from Jersey, just read his first book and it is one of the greatest things i've read in a long time. This isn't my fav poem he wrote, just the first one I read. Also if anyone else knows any good poets I would like to hear about them. Enjoy

: B-Boy Infinitives:

: To suck until our lips turned blue
: the last drops of cool juice
: from a crumpled cup sopped
: with spit the first Italian Ice of summer
: To chase posicle stick skiffs
: along the curb skimming stormwater
: from Woodbridge Ave. to Old Post Road
: To be To B-boy To be boys who
: snuck into a garden to pluck
: a baseball from mud and shit
: To hop that old man's fence before
: he burst through his front door
: with a lame-bull limp charge
: and the fist the size of a half spade
: To be To B-boy to lace shell-toe Adidas
: To say word to Kurtis Blow
: To laugh in the afternoons
: someone's mama was so black
: when she stepped out of the car
: the oil light went on
: To count hairs sprouting
: around our cocks To touch
: ourselves To pick the half-smoked
: True Blues from my father's ashtray
: and cough the gray grit
: into my hands To run
: my tounge along the lips of a girl
: with crooked teeth To be
: To B-boy To be boys for the ten day's
: an 8-foot gash of cardboard lasts
: after we dragged it
: seven blocks then slapped it
: on the cracked blacktop To spin
: on our hands and backs To bruise
: elbows wrists and hips To Bronx-Twist
: Jersey version beside the mid-day traffic
: To swipe To pop To lock freeze and
: drop dimes on the hot pavement-
: even if the girls stopped watching
: and the street lamps buzzed all
: night we danced like that
: and no noe called us home




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