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Just a Little Push

Whatever it takes to get you
 there and back again

 this would be a good place
 for a marsupial pouch
 weird psychotic life dragging groceries
 up a hill called California
 Out here on the Barbary Coast

 poor slender bicep
 with personal trainer
 just want definition
 not bulk
 well defined
 weaker than baby hamsters
 a gallon of milk,
 a loaf of bread,
 a dozen eggs.

 Plastic handles that cut off the circulation
 to the fingertips
 and subsequently
 the brain

 or...  'brams mang!'

  voiced in the Puerto Rican dialect
  of Louie, my friend
  From over 30 summers ago
He who is also very fond of the idea
Of being directly descendant
 from a tribe of Indians
 somewhere in the Bronx,
 but nowhere just somewhere
 a magic tribe
 Of round, cuddly, curly headed Louies
 All smoking peace pipes filled with Avenue A skittley-doo-dop  and pineapple flavored
 malt liqours

 they built the Brooklyn bridge
 all the high-rises on 5th avenue
 Hell, man Wall Street woulda been
 Fence Street
 and the majorly important section
 of the Jersey tunnel
 Where the money flows in and out
 Of the sacred burial grounds
 Known as Manhattoes

 Then... alla the sudden, they went assholic
 and disappeared back into the Bronx
 After they sent Louie to the store
 For a forty
 BUT! they wasn't spoiled Bratz *ahem*...
 Up walks Johnny Toast
 long blond stinky ass dreadlocks
 his parents own a Mansion and a yacht
 he just walks into the park to shoot dope
 all summer long
 Toast is burnt
 Louie dreams of being Toast

 and I dream of helping some of those
 'Up-the-Hudson' types
 into the rooms and out of their clothes.... That's the side of the bun
 my bread gets buttered on....
 Like I said earlier,
 whatever it takes to get you there
 and back again

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