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    NEED WORK series

    Patrick James Brown

    Kingston, Jamaica

    United States for twenty years

    Atlanta for 6 years

    resides at the Atlanta shelter

    “ less work as a whole, works is tough for a black man.  Most people pull up and pick up a hispanic. It makes it hard for a black man, racism……”

    NEED WORK series

    Home depot parking lots fill with men needing work.  The economy and the near stand still in the construction business create vast numbers of needy day laborers.

    what is the state of affairs from the street level ? this series finds out from the men themselves.

    this has been a self made report

  • November5th

    PAYMENT

    Posted in: Poetry

    PAYMENT The wrecking ball does swing
    -Hairy knuckels on controls
    The weight of your world
    Your body pays the tolls
    -Good days and bad
    Happy worlds and trash
    -Lipstick paradise and shot of whiskey would be nice
    -Virgin thighs for my head
    And the debt is undead
    -Were the crazy corner gospel street man hymns
    -Bacon frying on a tin can land
    And an old women living in a shoe…….screaming get your ass back in this house you dirty SOB
    -Ice cream truck fairy sprinkles the youth with the sav of ” it will be o k ” and the paste of DOOM is in home room
    - the carpets stained with blood and walls filled with death – the names in a tumbler spinning stained glass for their breath -
    The memory of sunshine found dead on its apartment floor
    -  souls In the headlines for acts against the state
    - the better part of ourselves the better half raped
    - a legacy of shame the size of a nation – poor it up as a strong libation – I ve got stories to tell but I do not tell them well – a minor from kentucky on a purple horse and buggy said all was still in the cycloptic third eye -
    there is no oxygen left to breath
    - the canary is on its knees  choking and hacking and forgetting about its wings
    - and there lies the trouble from brother to sister
    - all in one image and stuck outside
    - the dirty damn truth is there is no where to hide.
    - the dirty god damn truth is no chance to hide