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(1999.08: 085)
- CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POETRY
- by new, emerging, and established poets
JAY MARVIN
Cops
Crack house call code 10 leather and guns
America what have we built people like files
discarded off the national hard drive left to
reach from the bottom never to touch the top
in and out of our jails wants warrants lives
stored in computers records kept hands cuffed
in gray steel one key fits all bodies laying
in bus lanes payday drunk that's one way to
shut out the sour music selling it on the street
buying it in motel rooms drinking it in alleys
neon burnt overdose cuffed to a hospital bed
or thrown in detox if you can't make it here
you won't make it anywhere I'll be code six
waiting for cover there's on bad ass dude
in that room guns drawn door kicked in it's
me laying in that bed my dreams strangled blue
with a an old curtain cord nothing to do except
sit and cry to beat to scream to old to care
if you're gonna die get it over with now
save the fucking taxpayers some money will ya
and show me in service ten-four.
Poem copyright 1999; all rights reserved. (If you desire a copy of this poem, please contact its AUTHOR).
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