I Am (Justice)

i am, become...
i am the African slave
working in the deep Mississippi sun;
his eyes, his muscles, his back, his heart,
all shouting 'freedom'...
i am the college student,
hanging from a tree
in the sixties south,
who died for his conviction...
i am the minister
who joined the protest for peace,
dignity, and equality,
his face bashed in by the officer's club,
handcuffed in the back of the van...

i am the turning of the seasons
through prison bars,
the watered down coffee,
the tiny cell.
i am the one ridiculed and rundown

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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Helter Skelter

In a life we find
sequences of space n time
One moment is never like the next
Destined to exist in Memories'

Broken promises arises the belif'
That life is nothing like it seems

Seams interwined to form the fabric
of a life

Which can expire at any time

But who is too decide

Warfare
Enviromental Scares
Inequality
This is what Is left to our decendants

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poem by Marxist illuminatti
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For You Mother

FOR YOU MOTHER

Here is a little poem,
to a mother sweet and mine,
I hope when this poem reachs you,
that you are feeling fine,
I know you're in the old southwest,
Arizona to be exact,
in sunshine and warm air, although,
it is not always so, this I know is fact,
I know you're always a lady.
as sweet as you can be,
and mother I'm so happy,
that you belong to me,
of all my friends and relatives,
neighbors and all the rest,
it is my own sweet mother,
that I love the best,
when are you coming,
to visit for a while,

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poem by Harry Bryant
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Have You Heard, Part I

Mike Pinder)
Now you know how nice it feels,
Scatter good seed in the fields.
Life's ours for the making,
Eternity's waiting, waiting,
For you and me.
Now you know that you are real,
Show your friends that you and me
Belong to the same world,
Turned on to the same word,
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
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Eric Wincentsen
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Glendale Community College,

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song performed by Moody Blues
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Difficult Body

A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--
half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes
already milky with dust and snow, rolled upward

as if tired of this world tilted on its side.
We drove through the pink light of the police cruiser,
her broken flank blowing steam in the air.

Minutes later, a deer sprang onto the road
and we hit her, crushed her pelvis--the drama reversed,
first consequence, then action--but the doe,

not dead, pulled herself with front legs
into the ditch. My father went to her, stunned her
with a tire iron before cutting her throat, and today I think

of the body of St. Francis in the Arizona desert,
carved from wood and laid in his casket,
lovingly dressed in red and white satin

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poem by Mark Wunderlich
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Route 66

(word & lyrics by bobby troup)
This lyrics are like performed by natalie cole
If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.
It winds from chicago to la,
More than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.
Now you go through saint looey
Joplin, missouri,
And oklahoma city is mighty pretty.
You see amarillo,
Gallup, new mexico,
Flagstaff, arizona.
Dont forget winona,
Kingman, barstow, san bernandino.
Wont you get hip to this timely tip:
When you make that california trip
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.
Solo

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song performed by Nat King Cole
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Trust Time

I left oklahoma driving in a pontiac
Just about to lose my mind
I was going to arizona maybe on to california
Where the people all live so fine
My baby said I was crazy
My moma called me lazy
I was gonna showem all this time
Cause you know I aint no fooling
I dont need no more schoolin
I was born to just walk the line
Chorus:
Livin on tulsa time, livin on tulsa time
Well you know Ive been through it
When I set my watch back to it
Livin on tulsa time
Where there I was in hollywood
Wishing I was doing good
Talking on telephone line
But they dont need me in the movies
And nobody sings my songs

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song performed by Reba Mcentire
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Tulsa Time

I left Oklahoma driving in a Pontiac
Just about to lose my mind
I was going to Arizona maybe on to California
Where the people all live so fine
My baby said I was crazy
My moma called me lazy
I was gonna show'em all this time
Cause you know I ain't no fooling
I don't need no more school'in
I was born to just walk the line
Chorus:
Livin on Tulsa time, livin on Tulsa time
Well you know I've been through it
When I set my watch back to it
Livin on Tulsa time
Where there I was in Hollywood
Wishing I was doing good
Talking on telephone line
But they don't need me in the movies
And nobody sings my songs

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song performed by Reba Mcentire
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The state I am in

In my periods of self-imposed isolation,
when I am in a state of being,
rather than that of action,
when my passiveness, becomes paramount,
and my ambition is reduced
to one of apathy,
when I exist as an inanimate object,
rather than an object which
reflects life,
when I am present,
but unaccounted for,
when I suffer from
sel-inflicted wounds
and wound others about me,
becoming a wall of inhumanity
that no one is able to scale,
including myself,
a solid nothing,
erected by one's own
faltering ego,

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poem by David Lessard
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Tulsa Time

By danny flowers
Well, I left oklahoma
Driving in a pontiac,
Just about to lose my mind.
I was going to arizona,
Maybe on to california
Where people all live so fine.
My mother says Im crazy,
My baby calls me lazy,
But Im gonna show them all this time
cause you know I aint no fool and
i dont need no more damn schoolin.
I was born to just walk the line.
Living on tulsa time.
Living on tulsa time.
Gonna set my watch back to it
cause you know that Ive been through it.
Living on tulsa time.
So there I was in hollywood,
Thinking I was doing good,

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song performed by Eric Clapton
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Geronimo.. I Heard the Moon..

One-dimensional route,
a paratrooper sight,
of the 1st battalion,
501 parachute Infantry Regimen
serving for being a soul of a manly cause,
sentry at night
a code that never reached me,
guard, twelve to three AM...

Shadows my companions,
and an owl's cry, while sprites
become familiar, senses subside,
illusions, a snake's rattle
yesterday I saw my partner's burial,
and I nod my head
sideways, try to see the scene,
in perspective, was it a battle?

He left.. Where cherubs (they say) ,
wait for souls, I smile, aren't they dead?

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poem by Giorgio Veneto
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Under African Skies

Josephs face was black as night
The pale yellow moon shone in his eyes
His path was marked
By the stars in the southern hemisphere
And he walked his days
Under african skies
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein
After the dream of falling and calling your name out
These are the roots of rhythm
And the roots of rhythm remain
In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing round my nursery door
I said take this child, lord
From tucson arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she wont bother you no more
This is the story of how we begin to remember
This is the powerful pulsing of love in the vein

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song performed by Paul Simon
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Little Egypt

(words & music by leiber - stoller)
I went and bought myself a ticket and I sat down in the very first row
They pulled the curtain but then when they turned the spotlight way down low
Little egypt came out a-struttin wearin nothin but a button and a bow
Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying
She had a ruby on her tummy and a diamond big as texas on her toe
She let her hair down and she did the hoochie-coochie real slow
When she did her special number on the zebra skin I thought shed stop the show
Singing, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying
She did her triple somersault and when she hit the ground
She winked at the audience and then she turned around
She had a picture of a cowboy tatooed on her spine
Said, phoenix, arizona 1949
Yeh, let me tell you people little egypt doesnt dance there anymore
Shes too busy mopping and a-takin care of shopping at the store
cos weve got seven kids and all day long they crawl around the floor
Singing ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying, ying-ying

song performed by Elvis Presley
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Hot Enough for You?

Hey you right wingers who hang on to oil company excuses and
corporate rationalizations about weather patterns; so the greedy can continue to not use scrubbers and abide by rational supervision and laws that protect the environment is it hot enough for you?
3,800 temperature records broken in the first week of July,2012 alone.
Destructive wildfires in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Nebraska.
Over 50% of the country experiencing serious drought.
Old bubba is running his air conditioner twenty four seven!
You buy into such lies. You vote for corporate shills that ruin the world your children and grand children will inherit. You support the rich that the Bible condemns.
You think capitalism is the law of God and support greed. They blow off the mountain tops in West Virginia for the coal and leave a total mess. You deny global warming like Cain slew Abel. Let them pollute rivers and aquifers. Let them pollute the air and poison the earth. One out of sixteen use to get cancer now it is one of two. You don't stand up for GMO labeling or green technology. You don't stand up against the food industry as it corrupts creation and has horrible cruelty to animals. Radiated meat, ammonia washed, growth hormones and carcinogens and toxins. Then the very killers who ship the jobs and rule the world you give a tax break to.
IS IT HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU Bubba?

poem by Joseph Narusiewicz
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Sweet Marie

Sweet marie you mean a lot to me
In my memory I hold you very dearly
Once in all my dreams, my plans, hopes and future schemes
There was sweet marie
But my home is where my heart is
And my heart is not at home
Whenever we are parted
I feel so all alone
With twilight falling
The moon is calling sweet marie
What the sea tells only sea shells
Are whispering sweet marie
Into the darkness goes this message sweet marie
Some lovers are sometimes parted
They must end what they have started
All thats left is the broken hearted, I must depart my sweet marie
Somewhere out in arizona
Such a long way from california
I felt so alone there
I was two thousand miles away from home there

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song performed by Thin Lizzy
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Wild Horses

As the sun goes down on the arizona plain
And the wind whistles by like a runaway train
Hey hey hey its a beautiful thing
Well its me and you and a flatbed truck
My heart kicking over like a whitetail buck
Hey hey hey in the middle of spring
You can cut me deep
You can cut me down
You can cut me loose
Dont you know its okay
You can kick and scream
You can slap my face
You can set my wheels on a high speed chase
Hey no matter what you do
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
As the sky falls down from the midnight blue
Spittin like bullets on a hot tin roof
Hey hey hey its a beautiful sound
Well its me and you in a flatbed truck

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song performed by Gino Vanelli
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Take It Easy

Well Im a-running down the road trying to loosen my load
Ive got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says shes a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Dont let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Dont even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy
Well Im a-standin on the corner in winslow, arizona
With such a fine sight to see
Its a girl, my lord, in a flatbed ford
Slowin down to take a look at me
Come on baby, dont say maybe
Ive got to know if your sweet love is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win
But we will never be here again
Open up Im climbin in to take it easy
Well Im a-running down the road trying to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind

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song performed by Jackson Browne
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Shanghai'd In Shanghai (US Version)

Standing on a corner in downtown L.A.
Waiting for the man to come along
She comes up to me and says "too bad, too sad"
You know that he's been dead and gone.
L.A. lady, kinda shady
She picked him up and took him home
I woke up groggy my sight was smoggy
And I knew that it had been blown
Early in the morning sitting in a hotel
Moscow's looking fine through the wine
Spaced out I crashed out
When the K.G.B. came on the line.
It's a cold one, bein' sent down
It's gotta be fifty below
Mama here's a postcard to let you know
I'm in a saltmine and looking for coal
Shanghai'd in Shanghai
Stood on in Tuscon
Ripped off and kicked right out the bed
Flyin' across the desert from Texas to Tuscon

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song performed by Nazareth
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You

Let the sun beat through the clouds,
Let me kiss you on the mouth.
All my childhood toys with chew marks in your smile.
Let me hold your syrup close to mine.
Let me watch you, hollywood and vine.
And I want you like the movies, touch me now.
I love you crazy, just keep on.
I love you madly, just keep watch.
You wipe my lips,
You turn me on.
My attentions are turned to you.
Did I dream you were a tourist
In the arizona sun?
I can see you there with luna moths
And watermelon gum.
I woke up in the sleeping bag,
With nowhere else to run.
Youre standing in the bathroom
Telling me its all in fun.
I love you crazy, just keep on.

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song performed by REM
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London Homesick Blues

(gary p. nunn)
When youre down on your luck
And you aint got a buck
In london, youre a goner
And london bridge
Has fallen down
And moved to arizona
Now I know why
Well now substantiate the rumor
That the english sense of humor
Is drier than the texas sands.
You can put up your dukes
Go bet your boots
Ill be leavin here as soon as I can.
I wanna go home with the armadillo
Country music from amarillo and abilene
The prettiest women and the friendliest people you ever seen.
Well, I decided that
Id take my cowboy hat
And go down to the marble arch station

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song performed by Kinky Friedman
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