$100

 

We’re just 

living life in these cages 

praying that we make it out of 

where the elites heed their power 

(America)

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But 

we barely even making chump change,

so

whatever it was when 

I had learned to overcome 

the thought of even having false friends 

That’s a lose-lose situation 

With you stuck in the muddy waters 

and we don’t want no part of 

Just focus on the positives 

and let love be your mantra 

Sure 

you could assert your ego dominance 

but still 

be the one able to take losses 

and this is where people tend to get lost, 

holding a heavy conscious 

with faults that enable us

to live a life so dangerous 

while others look to take haven on 

A terrain so far 

it’s taken us 

so far from being an Angel’s son 

AMERICA

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Wife:

and still 

I continue to remain sour 

cause I’m sitting up for long hours 

and it’s taking its toll on me 

when I see 

you’d rather be with them,

posting this shit 

all over Instagram.

When all I wanna do 

is have a night with you.

Still

you rather fight 

and rattle my 

this is the reason I’m fragile 

and sitting sad inside 

cause you attracting bitches who got you flipping through your phone, itching 

Still you tell me it’s only business

That you got these other girls digits 

and it only separates our worlds 

where we’re unable to tend each owns wishes 

Never mind being close

cause I know who can fill that hole 

of me being alone

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College Student/Bartender

I’m only

Focused and working on getting my diploma,

and as the end of the year approaches. 

I’m hoping to not be homeless.

To keep my focus 

and not to be lead astray by phonies   

Growing up 

I always told to go to college,

and if I did anything else to make quick buck it be nonsense.

I mean… 

every students got problems, 

but the best thing is to just be positive.

So I start my shift…

Clocking in

while all my friends are out partying,

“Man!”

My stomachs aching 

and all I can think of is my wallet with no bacon 

I can hear it telling me, 

"That I didn’t make it"

Then asking, 

"Why I don’t have no savings?”

“Tsk!”

Coming home 

to sit and count notes,

and hope that this week 

I don’t pass broke 

“Oh, sweet!

A number but no phone. 

Hah! That’s a joke”

“Whatever!”

Sounds like it’s time to eat.

Got me thinking “Green.” 

Got me thinking meat.

Immediately I peak into 

To find..

Forgot that I need food,

that I need juice. 

Well I guess I’m lucky that I ain’t got no kids 

cause I got an empty fridge.

To better simplify,

I’m barely getting by,

even when I'm working 9 to 5.

Still…

Somehow I find 

my credit card gets declined.

Here you wanna talk about a 2 car garage and everything that a celebrities got that I don’t 

Just because I’m broke,

paying student loans.

You think 

that I don’t have a nice home. 

My bills, studies, and everythings got me stressing, 

but is this lifes lesson?

To struggle just to get by and make a living. 

Shoot!

I definitely need something to relieve this feeling.

Well…..

I  do see this dealer on the corner each day. 

Maybe the drugs he’s selling will make this anxiety go away,

a pain that maybe my mind only makes 

Minutes to midnight 

Get a grip, don’t trip 

Incoming, a car coming in 

We shakes hands 

making normal conversation 

but this feeling only grows to make me anxious 

then I get a glimpse of what I could be making 

Them big bills, maybe I want that 

Something to keep my wallet fat 

I give him a hundred dolla bill 

just for a couple pills 

to invigorate how I feel

America 

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Drug Dealer:

Struggling to make it by each day.

Some people think its easy being me 

selling weed in the streets among other things.  

Moving discreet while the police are looking to seize and bring a father down on his knees.

I'm only a man providing for his family.

Giving them something to eat, 

and hopefully some place to sleep. 

It’s a crime and their are times I do despise the things I do.

I wish I could be just like you.

I don’t have an education and I know that’s what it takes to make it.

I’m not gonna stress this 

but ever since I was a kid 

growing up homeless;

that meant free food in schools until they be closing

Living life cozy

even when all my clothes had holes in em 

Still I think  

Me with a job is low key, a joke

especially when I have no degree,

but floating this doe 

has given us everything that we had been hoping. 

So I take his 100 dollar bill 

to provide my baby with diapers and Enfamil

In return, I give him a couple a pills for a cheap thrill 

To hold off until 

He comes back for another deal

I wrap it up and put it in my wallet 

An hour later

I leave town 

and park my car at my chicks house 

cause the day before she had been wilding out

that I been messing about, 

so I came to end those doubts 

and do her proud.

Without knocking I go walking in

to find my chicks blouse

on the living room couch. 

Oh, God!

I'm freaking out!

Just an inch from lashing out,

and it’s turning me

to a person that's got an urge to hurt her deep.

I determine whats worse

so instead I throw her on the streets. 

I did every and anything that money can bring, 

and this is for the women that want to be treated like queens?

but utter when they sleep, 

they want it from someone other than me.

Damn, let me tell you… 

Money does provide a sense of security,

and I don’t know if that’s what you get 

when live here with me,

but these are the things I do for a couple of G’s, 

so believe me, this money’s a fucking disease.

Treating us all like dogs on a fu**ing leash.

Then there are those that have it all 

While others are trapped to fall

Not mattering at all 

and we just let it 

swallow us whole 

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Wife:

Ah, now here I am 

caught in the heat 

to only be casted off in the streets 

and it’s not that I need no guy to feel fine 

I think it’s just best to be making green 

and atleast I am trying

even if it’s the least to provide 

I do love it but hate it,

but I guess I’m just at a point in time where I feel our trust fading,

and it doesn't help 

when you tell me your selling drugs just for our babies.

To come and think about it... 

Me sleeping with others helps ease my conscious. 

Especially when were both knee deep in needing greens our problem.

so knowing I can’t bring happy 

I go 

and enter through another door w/ someone I barely even know 

and it only gets worse as I’m coming home  

to see my baby girl 

with an Angel glow 

and that there 

only lets me know 

what I’m doing ain’t so cold if we ain’t going broke 

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DING!* 

text @ 1 in the morning.

This one guy 

keeps telling me he adores me

and would do anything for me 

That’s already far better than him ignoring me 

so we

exit to the best location 

Texting, sexting, meshing’s an exclamation,

and it only got worse as I pulled up to our destination 

It’s got my heart racing as I checked in 

but once we met

this feeling only upset me,

It was unsettling 

to know this kid had a student debt 

accruing 

yet still willing to invest in me 

America 

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Homeless man: 

Every minute I walk ,

I listen to the people that talk,

and I try not to let it offend me at all. 

Still I hear em when they call.

Treated like a junkie. 

Ooo, lucky me

a description thats stuck with me,

and they agree and just assume 

 I’m a fool or disease 

so the only way to prove it not to be. 

Ya gotta be 

making money or some profit, monopoly 

but instead…

Here I am… waiting for my family to come talk to me

“Impossible!”

Look at me!

This is whats it’s like….

to actual be free,

so come to see

through the lies and deceit

I pull out my pocket,

a dollar to empty my wallet.

"Plutocracy"

it's what’s costing me, 

mocking me with false ideology’s. 

Holding us by democracy 

by way of hypocrisy.

Real eyes must realize 

that money 

eventually kills 

The lies you accept 

will suscept in your will, 

so they matrix a pill 

of a fake and enervating feel.

This... 

This is America’s spiel,

to live life in these cages. 

Stuck in these spaces,

to tell us we made it 

America 

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