Philadelphia Zombie
By Abu Lateef Babatunde
The city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. Racial diversity and dropouts from the University
Philadelphia known for cheese steaks, hoagies and homocides. Drug
Zombies dying side by side
They live and die in Philadelphia.
The birth place of ameriKKKa.
Facts that no one will deny
Zombie bitches and dogs living side by side on pigsty streets. Ho-ing in Fish-Town looking for man meat to eat. Needs both dope and shoes for her feet
You can hear them bray, bark, argue, cuss and holler. As they emerge from a nod to go make a dollar. Existing in swallor like urban hogs. Suburban castoffs
Casted off like critters. Becoming human litter on the sidewalks of Kinsington Ave. In need of a bath
Some once had plenty but now their pockets are empty. They ain’t got nothing but a monkey on their back
Addiction seems to be the latest white middle class suburban affliction. Zombies, living while dead,. Birthing crack and meth head babies
Zombies nod, dip, freeze and
sway but somehow against the laws of gravity… up they manage to stay
AmeriKKKa in all of it’s so-called greatness is still a sad, sad story. A grand experiment. Really?
It has surely slipped from it’s former star spangled glory. And the fine flag sewing job done by Betsey Ross
Indeed a hellified sight for a tourist to see. A white skeletonized flat behind female Zombie standing up taking a pee
While rich white politians
are on vacation living it up
on the beach in Waikiki
They never cared about the plight
of addicts when it was relegated
to the Barrios and Hoods
Now that their dope fiend children are causing their lives to become chaotic they are thinking maybe they should