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Man Down (Pigs)

from Boo Radley Bruises Badly by Initials B.R.

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Please don’t speak, the street’s asleep.
Count sheep to creep beneath
Sheets so steep it’ll take a week at least
To get on down in one peace.
Get, get on down. I bare teeth like chimpanzees,
Break boughs for the gold leaf Hades keys.
Boo Radley sees what Grady needs—
Ways to move thick-skinned like baby’s knees.
I might tweak beats like Sadie’s
“Where’s Sadie? Where’s Sadie? There she is.”
But I look for the ‘rents and there are the kids
Like the kids have kids so the kids commit.
I’d tail spin scared stiff should the big kids split
Like “Where are kids going to fit in this relationship?”
My one half did the math while the fools rushed in
And watched the other half laugh, like “What did we miss?”
Did we miss Grinch-less Christ-Missus Claus kisses
While we drank the water in a
Tap-ten-dimes-for-a-dollar,-get-down-to-break-change
Into-four-quarter-hustles-like-player-got-game attack?
Pay no mind to that.
Work’s to be done, trails left to track,
Pigtails to tack to donkey backs. Don’t relax.
The pasture’s packed to the max.
The facts, ladies and gents,
Seem to suggest in my opponent’s closing comments,
A verdict as certain as our defense is
That our plea, “Beats me”, upholds innocence.
The picture he paints could be “Framed and Hung”
But let’s not take for granted that the case is closed.
If feats of wonder stumble on the frozen,
Let’s speak in parables and carol to the toes.
This little piggy went to marketplace,
To taste the veins in filets of hope.
A hard knock-knock life knocked twice prepared.
He came back with a rope and a ransom note that said,
“Please go easy on the sex offenders.
Keep seeds in the tangerines.
And if it’s one gasp or a last laugh, surrender.
Let thieves give a hand for an arm that bleeds.”

I’m just one “Man down” to keep the peace.
Just save a piece for me.

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from Boo Radley Bruises Badly, released August 1, 2006

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Gold-school rap for the aught-age.

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