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My spoken word poem...


WesSyde

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in my English class, we have to do a spoken word poem for our final project of the year. we've been studying lots of rap music which is cool. we studied Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics" which i know some people know and we studied "Def Poetry" hosted by Mos Def. the final poem we do has to be presented and total 3 minutes long!!! but i've gotten off to a good start i think, i decided to write about cars, this stanza in particular is about my car.

I drive a Dodge Spirit, system pumping so you can hear it

Lyric for lyric of ambient vocals, bass and snare kickin’

People often laugh when I tell them that it’s a V6

Can’t do much about it though ‘cause I don’t stack chips

You can feel the vibration of the motor reverberations

But that’s overshadowed when I kick the 500 watt bass in

It’s painted candy green, I call it the green machine

And since I don’t have any bills I’m sitting on stock wheels

They 14’s but I keep ‘em clean, chrome 20’s would be dream

The interior is cream but dirty and the seats are torn at their seams

Thank God the air conditioner works when I need cold air

Ain’t got no sunroof though, so no fresh air to blow in my hair

It leaks every kind of fluid so that’s always one of my fears

I get impatient, frustrated when the transmission won’t shift gears

Gotta stay up on the gas gauge, ‘cause in this age my fuel pump is dyin

Keep tryin and tryin, but no luck, push it to the station and fill up with 40 bucks

Gotta be thankful for my ride though even though it’s not reliable

It’s ability to get me from place to place is appreciated and undeniable

i will probably continue later on with stuff about other cars that i like, but i just whipped this up in like 15 minutes, which is strange because usually when i try to write, i get writers block and i suck at rhyming words. i thought this came to me really well and i think its some of my best work. if you guys can give me feedback even tho i never post here i would appreciate it.

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