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Suicide Street
On the streets of Chicago, as I write
a desperate junkie gives up the fight
He sprays his brains against the wall
of an abandoned home’s upstairs hall
A teenage girl shoots her first rig of dope
because her parents never taught her to cope
She finds the relief that she’s always sought
Her biggest concern is not getting caught
She wakes the next morning and reads the news
about a junkie in Chi-Town who cured his blues
She thinks he’s a coward and can’t understand
why someone would execute such a dark plan
Twenty years later she’s found lying in the street
with semen in her stomach and tracks on her feet
Half her face is gone and a pistol by her side
Another victim of addiction who couldn’t stop the ride
a desperate junkie gives up the fight
He sprays his brains against the wall
of an abandoned home’s upstairs hall
A teenage girl shoots her first rig of dope
because her parents never taught her to cope
She finds the relief that she’s always sought
Her biggest concern is not getting caught
She wakes the next morning and reads the news
about a junkie in Chi-Town who cured his blues
She thinks he’s a coward and can’t understand
why someone would execute such a dark plan
Twenty years later she’s found lying in the street
with semen in her stomach and tracks on her feet
Half her face is gone and a pistol by her side
Another victim of addiction who couldn’t stop the ride
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28th Feb 2014 5:21am
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28th Feb 2014 8:45am
this is hardcore. it's laid out exactly as it should be. those streets never run out of stories...
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28th Feb 2014 2:11pm
I don't know about coolest, Vee, but surely one of the coldest. As you know, my favorite city is yours. I miss it every day. Especially when the whether is like this here in the Chi.
Naw, it sure ain't pretty but it's reality. I spent a lot of time on that side of the tracks in my life and I don't miss it one bit.
Gemini
Naw, it sure ain't pretty but it's reality. I spent a lot of time on that side of the tracks in my life and I don't miss it one bit.
Gemini
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22nd Mar 2014 1:37am
Best poem iv read on here yet. Shows the harshnes life gives , nice work
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