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2006-08-29 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-29 03:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Classic Kim.

Posted by 6 2006-08-29 07:42|| 2006-08-29 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 When the Left eats [not abort, cause they've been doing that for generations] its young will be about the time they admit that maybe, just maybe Colonialism wasn't all that bad.

Posted by Sholuting Chose2386 2006-08-29 08:53|| 2006-08-29 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Teddy sniffing glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others
And I salute you brother

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, "Hey, I know it's dangerous, but it sure beats Riker's"
But the next day he got offed by the very same bikers

Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died
-Jim Carrroll

See the song People Who Died for the full effect.

Posted by Clereting Angailing9636 2006-08-29 11:27|| 2006-08-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 CA9636: Thanks for that uplifting tidbit - I feel all warm and fuzzy now.

Actually, it's been too long since I heard the song.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-08-29 13:40|| 2006-08-29 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Not that I'm naive about what happens in some parts of our society, but I've not heard the song and don't want to.

I'm tired of the attitude that because some in our society do greatly self-destructive things, it is courageous and artistic to hold them up as the norm.

Not that I shrink from the reality of death -- I've seen it up close, along with other tragedies that struck too many. Too many young doing foolish things among them.

But it isn't what I aspire to nor do I find it somehow "honest" to suggest it's what life is really about in America.

JMO

Posted by didnt and dont want to 2006-08-29 14:20|| 2006-08-29 14:20|| Front Page Top

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