Main Street Blues

Main Street Blues

A Poem by Abdul Batin Osman Bey
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To the City of Champions

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Two love birds holding hands

While a prostitute chats up a John

Fredrick Douglass lies on the pavement

Skin head kissing a Jamaican princess

Bearded homeless man pushes his carriage

While a million dollar preacher gets out of his mustang

 

Muslim woman with skintight jeans

Flirty cape green girl at Supremes

This is the Main street scene

 

Asian man gives an awkward nod

Drug dealers standing on every corner

Secret couple makes interracial babies

Crack head smoking in front of the new courthouse

Cops drive by pretending not to see

Woman has tits out while man has his penis out

Father laughs as mother cries

Hearse rolls up to a red light

I step into neutral vibration

Then I’m off again

This is the Brockton scene

© 2012 Abdul Batin Osman Bey


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Abdul Batin Osman Bey
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This is one word..Amazing!

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Abdul Batin Osman Bey

9 Years Ago

thank you anne
A very powerful social commentary helped along by the blunt imagery...nice work^^

Posted 11 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Abdul Batin Osman Bey

11 Years Ago

Thank you very much
kublakhan27

11 Years Ago

No problem^^

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Added on September 23, 2012
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Tags: love, birds, John, Fredrick Douglass, Jamaican, Skin, homeless, Supremes, Asian, Drug, interracial, Brockton, massachusetts, courthouse, tits, penis, father, Vibration

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Abdul Batin Osman Bey
Abdul Batin Osman Bey

Cambridge, MA



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