Miscellaneous
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Use Your Mind! Don't Be Blind
published: 25 /
6 /
2010
In his 'Evidently Spencertown' poetry series Spencer Robertshaw looks at gangs and knife culture
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Spitting rhymes
No crimes
Need no drugs for my high times
Use your mind
Don’t be blind
Look for trouble it will come and find
Easy to take the wrong path
Even brag, have a laugh
But what happens when it comes to an end
You’ll find that prison bars don’t bend
Education's a dirty word
It’s the stuff of fools
You’ll be OK on the street
As long as you carry your tools
Then you make a mistake
Trying to show off
You never meant that life to take
How the others scoff
Life in jail for a second's work
Not a bad rate of pay
But you’d rather sweep the streets
Than the cell 23 hours a day
Use your mind
Don’t be blind
Look for trouble it will come and find
Stop! Be a member of mankind
Turn the other cheek
It takes a bigger man
It’s only the weak
That don’t do right when they can
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466 Posted By: Barbara Taylor, Harrogate on 29 Aug 2011 |
This is so very true to where our young people are headed if they aren't careful. They are full of their own culture, their self assurance can be so quickly taken away from them when their house of cards tumbles down before their very eyes .... and it is usually a permanent change.
Invincible they are not.
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