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The Hood

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When you 

FROM THE HOOD,

LIVING in a

 RUNNED DOWN, 

RURAL NEIGHBORHOOD!!!

When your CHURCH, your SCHOOL, 

your BEAUTY SALON,

 BARBER SHOP and

 the LIQUOR STORE, 

is only WITHIN 

WALKING DISTANCE,

When the ICE CREAM 

TRUCK RUNS during the DAY, and

LATE AT NIGHT!!

WHEN KIDS ARE ON 

BIKES, SCOOTERS,

 SKATEBOARDS and SKATES,

WHEN YOU BETTER 

HURRY HOME QUICK,

the STREET LIGHTS will come ON,

HURRYING HOME BECAUSE IT'S LATE,

When it's a SCHOOL NIGHT,

and YOU have to BE IN BED by 8,

DO YOUR HOMEWORK and 

MAKE SURE IT'S RIGHT, 

not long after HAVING DINNER,

then it's LIGHTS OUT GOODNIGHT, 

Back in the Day,

MY PARENTS DROVE A CADILLAC,

An OLDSMOBILE REGENCY,

Now What ya'll think of THAT???

IN THE HOOD,

WHEN YOU GOT IN TROUBLE IN SCHOOL, and

your GRADES WERE BAD,

When you had SCHOOL FRIENDS, and 

ALL OF THE FUN THAT YOU GUYS HAD,

GIRLS PLAYED DOUBLE DUTCH,

THE BOYS PLAYED BALL,

PICKLES and KOOL-AID 

 was the best, IF I RECALL,

CHIPS and SODA, 

NOW-N-LATERS, 

THE TIMES WERE LAID BACK, AND 

LIFE WAS GREATER,

LEMON HEADS, 

BOSTON BAKED BEANS, 

MR. MELON, 

CHERRY CLAN, and 

JOHNNY APPLESEEDS,

THESE ARE MY FONDESS

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES!!!,

IN THE HOOD, you weren't 

SUPPOSED TO SQUEAL, because

SNITCHES GET STITCHES, and

that's on the REAL, REAL!!!

Back in the back day,

things weren't too bad,

IT'S 2025

 NOW, THINGS ARE JUST SAD,

OH, IF I COULD JUST JUMP 

 in a TIME MACHINE,

and REVISIT and TALK to the

OLD YOUNGER ME, and 

tell her about THESE PRESENT TIMES,

I GUARANTEE YOU, IT WILL BLOW HER MIND, and

I WILL give her 

WISDOM and INSPIRATION,

INSPIRE TO KEEP GOING, and have MOTIVATION,

I just WISH I CAN, and 

I WISH I COULD,

as I recollect my youth of,

LIVING IN THE HOOD!!!

 

 

B.R.

DATE: 3/17/2025

 

 

 

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