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 Running By Your House On a Saturday by Lippi Zaner anywhere but here by Audrey Hardwick Zion by Charles Still My Dawg by Torrence Where is My Mom by Nicholas Bateman EXHALE by Regina Stone submit a poem for next month's edition go to current edition  |
Still My Dawg by Torrence Hey Tommy, Datch, Paul, Mama. I don't know about y'all but I can't deal with this drama. Everybody leaving right to left. I don't know about them but I ain't ready to meet death. Look what's left - just me and the family. People coming after me trying to splatter me. Mama always told me that I had a hard head and that if I didn't listen now I would surely be dead. I went up the ladder and said it's about to begin. I fell, went back up and I came down again. Lord forgive me for my sins. I don't mean to be bad but you keep taking people out of my life. You leaving me sad. People always telling me, "Torrence, things happen for a reason this time of the yearthis part of the season." People steady dying. What's the reason for that Shawn, Tommy, Mama, Paul and then it was Datch I got leeches on my back and they sucking my blood. When stuff like this happens it makes me wanna get a gun go kill everybody who ever brought me trouble I'm picturing it in my mind, taking my life on the double I'm getting the shovel and I'm about to dig a hole How long will they mourn me - until I get old You took people out of my life and you left me in the fog. I ain't tripping about dat you still my dawg. I'm standing in the rain with a blood clot in my brain, Yellin' out to you, Lord, please take away the pain. You put something heavy on my back and it felt like a log, but you still my dawg, Yeah, you still my dawg. You came to my dream and you told me this, "Torrence, you still my dawg even after your life is dismissed. |
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