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Too Cool

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Yo! Hey there...

 

young man...

you seem 

waayyy too cool, 

doing your part 

in the play...

playing the fool...

spending cash like its nothing, 

talking trash... to authority figures

playing hooky from school 

...learning to read these mean streets 

instead... of playing life by the rules

you refuse to be "bought"

running away... 

from your responsibilities

like you'll never get caught

swear, you'll never end up

...winding up getting caught up, 

making tails, selling 

wholesale and retail

...behind the counter, 

helping the sly, wicked and slick,

get richer than Uncle Sam, 

printing money, by popular demand

raking in more cash, 

while the minimum wage stockers

waiters, fast food order takers, 

fried chicken bakers 

eke a meager existence, 

paycheck by paycheck

just another bill away from homeless 

living in debt, practically hopeless

part of the... machine world 

which feeds on the dreams 

of all those it possesses

and those, whose lost pride

hollows out their insides 

fallen from its sweet bosom

...there is no place to hide

the militarium, has decreed 

it can no longer house and feed

the indigent, unwilling or 

...incompetent...  unless 

you have agree to proceed 

to be categorized, as 

...a bad seed... to be 

...jailed, drugged 

...or dead... 

* * *

* *

*

WAIT!

...what's

the use of this 

living on the edge

scratching your head

struggling to live free 

finding the bandwidth

outside of the madness

...finding the key... 

used to be the

... right of passage

for a young man... 

to leave ...home...

to establish, his own... 

family, part of the nation 

i remember, when... 

it used to be... When, 

boy's used to look up to men

like there was something to be

i liked, doing... the way i used to do

kind of reminds me of you... too

never settle for something less 

...than what's right for you

 

 

C2 

 

 

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mlowe5 says:

Indeed C2, Indeed! My sentiments too! Just when we think we sit back for the weekend and chill, God says, "Aw Naw!. Y'all gotta git out there and grab dem boys and shake some sense into them!" Thanks for this motivating share. Peace and Love.

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