Monday, August 5, 2013

Untitled

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog



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My Adidas

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog



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RIP Trayvon

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog


                    "RIP Trayvon Martin                                           RIH George Zimmerman"

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LeBron

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog



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Malcolm

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog





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Links Not Chains

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog


"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.  The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that's what happened to the American Negro."
                                                                                --- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Hey Sunshine

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog



"A little something to brighten up your day."


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Happy Cosbys

By: Chinese Raccoon Dog




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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Distorted Emotions

By: H.B L
6.17.13

Versatile in my ability to feel.
Is it real? 
So many different levels of joy and pain/
Does it sustain or support?
The love that I so deeply sought?
Can I maintain with such an emotional boulder? 
Is it worth the effort?
These feelings that I shoulder?
Am I able to smother this eternal flame?
For events in which I am partially to blame?
How do I begin to heal?
When my heart continues to feel?
and in return continues to break.
Is it that I have earned such a miserable fate?
Do I not possess the will, 
To control the things I feel?
Has the picture been previously painted?
Of a destiny so distinctively tainted?
As a man my world continues to be torn, 
Yet in love my heart continues to be born.
Making happily ever after a far too distant notion, 
Unable to fully blossom due to distorted emotions!


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Tears

By: H.B L
6.15.13

Rain, produced by emotional clouds,
From deep within your soul.
A symbol of pain, sadness, and shame.
And from the very start,
A grand tribute, or a broken heart.
A way of mourning what was lost,
A form of release, that doesn't cost.
The trademark, of a battered soul,
A brave heart, now just an open hole.
Constant tears intensify the pain,
Alone with fears, that I am reluctant to tame.
Still I don't judge,
Or hold a grudge,
Mine is a true love, it doesn't budge.
Yet do I retreat, and except defeat?
Because deep within, your love is weak?
Before my eyes, flash all that I fear
The sight of me losing, what I hold most dear
Yet in the end I find the release I seek
In an abundance of tears, parading down my cheeks!



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"Hey There Delilah" Parody

By: Wonders aka JRR

Hey there Delilah
what's it like in Albion Correctional Facility
You're 200 miles away but girl
tonight you look so pretty yes you do
Razor wire can't shine as bright as you
this one's for you...
Ooh it's what you do to me (x4)
Upstate New York seems pretty far
but there's free buses, trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Hey there Delilah I've got so much left to say
if every single letter I wrote to you
would take your breath away I'd write it all
Anymore in love with me you'd fall, we'd have it all
Ooh it's what you do to me (x4)
Hey there Delilah I know times are getting hard
but just believe me girl I swear this year
you'll make your initial board, we'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
my word is a good.
Ooh it's what you do to me (x4)
Upstate New York seems pretty far but there's. free buses, train and cars
I'd walk to visit if I had no other way.
Our friends will all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because
we know that none of them have felt this way.
Delilah I can promise you that by the time
your bid is through, the world will never ever be the same
and you're to blame for catchin' this case.
Ooh it's what you do to me (x3)
Hey there Delilah you be good and
don't get any disciplinary
2 more years and you'll be on parole
and I'll be making history like I should
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
this one's for you.
Ooh it's what you do to me...


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Hold Me Down

By: Wonders aka JRR

While I'm gone and locked away
Keep my feet on solid ground
and promise you won't turn away
Hold me down
Baby I've been around
and around and around
I'm dizzy and my bone ache
too many sleepless nights turned into sleepless days
spent running away
from past mistakes
Hold me down
'Cause I can't go through this shit alone
Please just hold me down
'Cause I won't make it on my own
Hold me down
until I come home to stay
Keep my feet on solid ground
And baby please
Don't turn
Away


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Prison Is

By: Wonders aka JRR

Prison is:
Long days and long nights
It's all about what you got, right?
Packages and full buys, or so and so's wife
talkin' 'bout she ain't got shit
that bum bitch
fuckin' for chicken and rice
Well, I haven't got a poptart to my name
But I'll still be alright
Cuz at the end of the day
this may be what you call life
but when I go home I've got
real things to do with mine
isn;t this your 2nd or 3rd bid?
Prolly cuz you never learned shit.
Just came right back
as a P.V. or a new Din
you need to take this time
to learn what it is
to be a better person
and an actual mom to your kids
instead of walkin' around
Like this is home
and "Oh well. It is what it is."
caught up on packages
or cookin' that and this
and gossipin' 'bout what they did
and she did this
but you just ate with them
cuz your fake ass shit
actin' like you're in here doin' big things
but the truth of it is
without your fam you wouldn't have
a fucking pot to hold piss
you're not the reason that you're comfortable
you just front like it is
you're ignorant...
If your man can pass as your grandad
call is what it is--he's a trick
who're you tryin' to kid?
if any of this hit home
you should really look at why that is.
So get it together now
it's time to grow up.
I leave this September.
You leave in 2000 and what?


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