Struggle Song: Book 2

Struggle Song: Book 2

Cory Ballad

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FML, but Wait…

It rains

I seek refuge

The sun shines instantly

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Midtown Melee

He was the janitor in a 3 room property where some renters lived

he needed to get out the trash.

One man that lived there was mad, told him to never come in his room.

The janitor thought he would pay him no mind-

continue his job he assumed.

The man got mad as hell and contested his presence more belligerently.

As the tenants filled the hall,

The janitor questioned the man’s sanity

Reason for him being there was the job-

That’s all…

So they argued back and forth,

The janitor making his appeal, but the man was paranoid from using dope

his anger, by words, could not be healed.

Blindly he grabbed a lock

and attacked the janitor

beating him savagely til blood filled the hall.

The tenants hesitated to interrupt his drug-induced insanity

but finally,  the altercation did cease.

Janitor left in an ambulance

The man exited with the help of the police.

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LLC

Begged for food,

They said no,

Mentioned loud,

They said let’s go.

4

Squelch Joy

Life is good

Life is grand

Ah, join a fucking marching band!

5

Depleted

When you do something right,

They got shit to say bout it

When you do something wrong,

They got shit to say bout it

If you are too fast,

It ain’t good enough

If you are too long,

It ain’t good enough

When you try to fight back,

They appalled

When you bite your tongue,

They appalled

Then you stay away

They searching for you heavy.

Every time they in the

vicinity,

Your glow is a little more

dull.

You believed you

escaped the toxicity,

but they have penetrated

your skull.

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Toxic People

Every time

I see you

I run the other way

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Circus Dust

When clowns give you advice,

but are unaware they are clowns

Dust.

8

Ugh, Brat!!!

I don’t have many shoes

less than 200 pairs

I’m damn near homeless

9

Ghetto Nomad

He was a drifter

Didn’t know where he would smoke his

next black

Didn’t know where his next egg sandwich

was coming from

10

Boundary Issue

If you put me in a box,

They’d charge you an arm and a leg for shipping

I’m good on your box.

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Common

Common.

Ordinary.

Vomit.

You make me very,

sick with your

basicness

Don’t think that I don’t know

your tricks

Don’t think I don’t see that shit

I know how you be spinning it

Know you be grinning when

You think

You out here sinning slick.

Common is what you be

Your basicness-

so plain to me

I’m what they call a vision-

ary

That’s why I detect,

your ordinary.

Common. 

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Cybersex Quan

When Dee walked in the room

Quan was chatting on video

Dee needed to be informed why

was Kita revealing her kitty-hole

and Quan his Oscar Meyer

Did he conclude she had retired 

to the other room for the night?

Was this common practice when she wasn’t around?

Quan replied that his affinity to indulge in the

infraction was contextual

but was mostly the effect of Dee’s

neglect that was sexual

He was also aroused by the non-conventional

That’s why he was on-screen, exposing

his un-mentionables

Dee was dumbfounded and unbelieving

Then informed Quan it was her bat, she would

be retrieving.

When Dee went back into the room

Quan hit the door.

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Help!: A Great Prayer

Send someone!

Let’em fall out the sky!

We’ll figure somethin’ out…

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Cory Ballad 2019

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