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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |So what does the poetry of "everyday life" sound like? Here are brief samples from three poems collected in Aloud. "Please Don't Take My Air Jordans" is by Reg E. Gaines:
my air jordans cost a hundred with tax my suede starters jacket says raiders on the back i'm styling...smilin...lookin real mean cuz it ain't about bein heard just bein seen
Here are the opening lines of "An Open Letter to Myself" by Nicole Breedlove:
I didn't mean
for it to happen
like this
(my life that is)
I don't want it
remembered
that welfare
bought us things
we didn't want
And my brother
joined the army
to get away
from the government...
And, finally, Anne Elliott's "Sleepwalking, Told in Slow Motion:"
tonight I am stuck in a red room called hell and the devil in the center swings a hot heavy iron rod in a swift circle his arms are propellers and I can't duck low enough.
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