The State of Virginia birthed me . Northern cities befriended this life from child to man , watched over as i married and missed the war, fathered many children rode the strong stallion of hard times in places where blues played brutal riffs on my unsaved soul as sexmusic moaned absently from juke joints lights blinked multicolored along rubblish filled streets like chestnut, market. Many one night stand party music cigarette filled rooms filled in by loneliness as the city blows up with frantic shadows of violence bullets not caring whose name is called baby Death plays no emotional games and has no favorite sons or daughters.It might punch your ticket at any moment, even in mid smile. So many epitaphs today, end up on t-shirts,to remember. Love and hold on to me now , while there is still breath in tthis body and the blood runs life, despite my imperfections cause Death has such an ugly shape.