Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
she saying we might kill our selves
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Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
until i achieve my dream death it self can't touch me
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
death can be dreadful but it can also be good depending where you stand with that person or the sitution
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I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
now days people sleep with their gun by their bed and it's because can you really trust people when your sleep
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Finally pulled it back and saw 3 bullets caught up in the chamberSo now I'm jetting to the building lobbyAnd it was full of children probably couldn't see as high as I be(So what you saying?) It's like the game ain't the sameGot younger negroes pulling the triggers,
it's sad when the younger kids get involved with gangs and guns because they see other people do it now they think that they have to
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forever negroes talk stuffReminiscing about the last time the Task Force flippedNegroes be running through the block shootin'Time to start the revolution, catch a body,
he's talking about the memaries he had when he was in his old hood, plus it was pretty rough there as well so sometimes they had to shoot people for their protection.
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I'm like Scarface smelling amphetaminesHolding an M-16,
he's comparing himself to a legend from a movie that inspired people to do what they want to do
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so sweet and so cold
sweet and cold he could be explaining the traits of a certen someone
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Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
he feels bad for eating them but sounds like that he doesn't regret it, it's a difference between feeling bad and regret
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and which you were probably saving for breakfast
so he was being greedy and now have nothing to eat for breakfast and now he got 1 more problem to deal with
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I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
he ate the plums that were cold
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Away from the masonry wall and let her drop
umm this is not a very nice poem is it
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Its color and fit And feel and its clean smell have satisfied Both her and me.
females always love it when men smell good
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The kilt, devised for workers To wear among the dusty clattering looms. Weavers, carders, spinners.
talking about the people working to make the shirts
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shrill shirt ballooning."
what does that mean cause i never heard of it
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A third before he dropped her put her arms Around his neck and kissed him
i think he might be talking about a couple.
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She burns like a shot glass of vodka.
yea i had a shot of that and it wasn't cool at all it burns the back of the throat but only for a min
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A tiger under a rainbow at nightfall.
never heard of that before that's the first so maybe it's rare for them to do that
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she burns like a piece of paper.
some papers burn slow so maybe to him it's like the yelling never stops
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belongs to a girl still burning inside my head.
he has a voice in his head or he probably just over a break up or lost a loved one and they're stuck in his head.
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The cry I bring down from the hills
this is probably the line i like the most outta of all that we read, i wonder if he meant the tears coming down his check bones or like after it rained somewhere and the rain water is actually coming down the hill.
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Or does it explode?
the city exploded as of in the people in the city as in like a riot or something
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Does it stink like rotten meat?
it could be the trash in the hot summer days in harlem.
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like a heavy load.
it could be the city because it's a lot of people that live there
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Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
never seen that with sugar. sugar and crust that's weird to add both in a poem
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And then run?
so it has legs now, you gotta have an imgination to figure out what he's talking about.
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Or fester like a sore—
so he's comparing sum to a raisin drying up and a sore so its really hard to figure out what he's talking about.
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like a raisin in the sun?
i've never seen a raisin dry up in the sun so i don't know what reffering to
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tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
it's like he's proud of him self for doing something that he' himself did, and lifting the lamp near the golden door probably symbolize his hard work payed off
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A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
it's like she's a goddess to them and they worship her
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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
like the Greek gods
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No Man instructed me ‑
no one taught her to dance
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Nor hopped for Audiences
she didn't want an audiences to dance in front of?
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I cannot dance opon my Toes
does not have balance to dance.
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cultivation of victory Overlong blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.
sometime you get what you give them
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Dark gardening
maybe it's she's reffering to something else that has a dark spot in her heart
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in the hot paralysis.
can't move your body in the heat
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what wants to crumble you down, to sickenyou.
talking about the guilt that they have for the crimes they did
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Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
um maybe she's talking about the savage prisoners
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between them without a dribble, without a single bounce hitting the hardwood
it's like a game of catch going down the basketball court
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until the guard finally lunges out and commits to the wrong man
always happens even me it happened to me this past weekend
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with a wild, headlong motion for the game he loved like a country
i can relate to this line because its the same look i give to my sport
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and spinning around to throw a strike to the outlet who is already shoveling
i don't understand when he said this line it really made me thing harder than it should have
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perfectly, gathering the orange leather from the air like a cherished possession
holding something that holds value to him and wouldn't give it up
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Fast Break
something is possible about to happen that is crazy
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Fast Break
fast break, something is possible about to happen
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