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The Ghetto
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Under Construction Red brick, screen doors, cement porches, and rundown lawn chairs.
The ghetto.
Street lights,smoking weed(not pot,phoneless phone booths,and building numbers.
The ghetto.
Caprices, Impalas,with candy paint and three rims,all playing different music at 12am.
The ghetto.
Tinted windows, vegetable men, Mr.Softie, and paper thin walls.
The ghetto.
Cornrows,fake toenails,blonde hair with black roots, and Bantu perms.
The ghetto.
Basketball courts,community centers,block parties,and double dutch.
The ghetto.
Street football,stick baseball,cheerleading in houseshoes,with jheri curls.
The ghetto.
Riding motorcycles in flip-flops,head rags,hair nets and Newports.
The ghetto.
Candyladys,beer houses,slangers giving you dollars for the ice cream man.
The ghetto.
Working mothers, drunken fathers,3year olds in diapers with bottles, and grandma walking you home from school.
The ghetto.
Window air conditioners, numerous pigeons, shorts woren in Febuary, and barbeques on the front porch.
The Ghetto,
not a place,a lifestyle,
not a disaster,but home.
Most ackward to those who don't know it,
but the place that we who do run to.
Hell Yeah!
HOME!
Nice Work on incorporating these aspects of the hood.
I like this type of writing. Never forget your roots.
The Ghetto is who you are and who I am.
Keep writing the realism.
You described my hood exactly.
Much Love
Suivatco/octaviuS
You had me thinking back to when I was a kid sitting on the front porch. Loved it. I don't think you missed much. Liked the repetition too. Made is seem more like a song than a poem. Good write.
"The Ghetto,
not a place,a lifestyle,
not a disaster,but home.
Most ackward to those who don't know it,
but the place that we who do run to."
This was too real,
You did a great job depicting "the ghetto" for those who have no idea, just know what they've seen on TV...
On the other hand, for those who live/lived there... You make smile with this piece. Speaking of what we love and cherish so dearly.
Peace and Blessings
POE