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Destiny Is A Son Of A *****

DESTINY IS A S0N OF A ***** 01-22-11

 

Destiny most certainly means death

But down here, ***** murders are allowed.

A Low profile is seen as weak, soon

slaughtered by their predators.

 

Truth: Oakland gangsters are serous.

 

They bang it for the colors,

colors of their territory

collateral damage lay dead

in the street; the rotting innocent.

 

This conflict, this senseless war

between three colors, blue, red and black

is why violent Oakland is now called

..... "Baby Iraq", yep you heard me: BABY IRAQ

 

a ****** occurs every three days

....over red, blue and black.

They say they fight over turf and colors.

I think they're the same damm thing.

Thier colors mark the poles like dogs.

The scent of the enemy is evident.

 

Intel from the neighborhood walls

reveals the constant dissonance

and the unwillingness to lose.

 

A grenade of spray paint,

criss-crossing, the others' lines

until it's time to get some respect,

Ya feel me?!?

 

I hear this phrase so many times

it hardly phases me anymore.

Yeah, I feel ya, dude,

now whatcha gonna do?

 

This one boy's eyes had me mesmerized.

As he talked softly into the distance.

He began to rock in a sad back and forth,

as his homies began to surround him

 

He was the wise one, the shot caller

even with his weak form peeing in a bag

hanging from his wheel chair.

 

Javier was wearing black, the color from his hood

He was just a gang affiliate until color blue

( or was it red?)pulled up and shot him...

he's no longer walking, in a wheel chair instead.

 

He was beautiful I fell most in love

with his angelic face with an elf's chin

coffee with lot's of cream color skin

He was smooth as porcelain

 

He had a youthful moustache

and a memory of a war veteran

He is a gang member now,

in the middle of a warzone.

 

"Be Bait", "Play Chicken",

take chances, on the enemy's

turf, become victor or victim

 

Names of games, dangerous,

and fun provoking the violence

passed down through each generation

Some sort of genetic adrenaline.

 

The series of small deadly battles

leaves a smell of fresh gun powder

asphalt and blood spilled iron

three colors pouring out,

turn into the color of wine.

 

Hopelessness is proven out

by the swollen death count,

mounting up, the line of corpses

waiting to be thrown off gurneys

entering the morgue, then

tossed into the freezer

with the rest of them.

 

Baby Iraq has become

a force of its own on the street.

If they ever figured that out,

They'd be running the nation.

 

They are too caught up

in their fathers' hatred

History repeats, written line by line

Raw power in the clutch of stupid minds,

begins and ends with small apocalypses.

 

In dire situations, they eat their young,

like ******

The gobbling up of offspring is

nothing new or unsacred.

 

It's what they do to

postpone their own fate.

 

Any beneficial gain is not felt yet

but will be, in the events that

did NOT happen

 

They don't get it

there is no benefit.

They all just die.

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