The Back Page Is Years To Come

Brownsville 1995 children massacred in the streets tar blood gushes naval fleets towards a European shore as I go to the store it's Sarajevo in the lead fotograph followed by racket swingin' Stephi Graph and Monica Seles' forehand back slash colon classified certified whites and middle blacks sayin' human harmony comes from outerspace TV attacks with martians in the sky believing star trek doesn't lie but sho' 'nuf separates people again those who judge you by your facial slate and those who have a star bound fate the back page is years to come brown kids in Brownsville written off by hand as future bums screeching plowing on the slice a Latina mother makes sacrifice and meets the bumper upon her head to keep her daughter from young and dead rapture in pixels pictures her dots per inch destroy her life story quite a cinch chain link fence on twelfth and c curlin' off the bar playground pranksters climb to see how far it bends before it breaks for the back pages is years to come ethnic cleansing ink is blood little Italy's Elizabeth street everybody walkin' on balls of feet thinkin' that they are the best boastin' bloatin' big fat chests festivals in the plaza breasts of hair no one working here is queer the back page is years to come hard is plot to find that is thick when sitcoms play it dumb and quick afro Latin women thrown daily from the roof the story disappears in the rear of the press it goes poof! proof! is the face of yuppie central park she's worth much more if her complexion ain't dark the back page is years to come the pate is the goose dollar scum where Mexicans are in aprons gloved and terry clothed maid rubber made chains to clean up the wash of front page news over exposure upper and middle class crass due to a bad case of over exposure years and years of seeing our smiling faces if a cop shoots another in the back it's lack of vision when shot is black all bullets entered from his blind side though that's for him not to decide a jury of his peers will think and futile later create a verdict stink the back page is always run the back page is always run running up the front pages ass and tucked away in the paper tucked away in our hearts safe if all of my emotions and fears and risk were 28 pages deep into me the back page is years to come the pate goose is the mousse dollar scum 1995

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