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Black streets of Hackney (Free verse) by cpill
Young men gang the streets looking for a time
Watch the clocks trickle time
Life makes no friends with dreams
They wear their ideals sold to them at full price
For the youth here destiny is only tomorrow
The answers are always under English rubber stamps
(which you can not have nigger)
Coldly smothering the fetus: rebellion
Night frays the edges of appearance
The whitehate blind dates the hateblack
They are unfaithfully with any passer by
Poverty stokes Hackneys fires
Burn the lands to dry barren earth
On which these dark seeds lay strewn.
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