Verse-Rap Against Youthicide by Jack Hirschman
Coalition on Homelessness, SF (coh@sfo.com)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:56:00 -0800
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Verse-Rap Against Youthicide
They're hungry, seriously hungry, by the millions now,
Kids, children under twelve, here, in this country
They're being systematically destroyed, that's right,
Your future is being starved to death, slowly
The deprivations sink in, dull, dislocate, swell up
What shouldn't be swollen, step on what needs lifting,
Break in, break down, break into little people who are
The People, The People you called yourself
One of The People for.
They are being youthicided, and if they run from where
It's poor, if they start running, and if money starts
Appearing in their little pockets as they're running,
If they get delivered by delivering, O yes,
If they get golden by holding and get their rocks off
So that they're essence of bad and deep-street tough,
They'll still be youthicided. They're popping all night
And dropping like flies from a homegrown swat team;
Look what Bella's chow found bleeding at the curb;
A representative of the American teens.
And the dapperest rap that can snap the dope in your head off
And spit the shit out like snake poison is trying to head off
The vicious malicious unloading of even more venom
So that the blooming future of young phenoms not be
Of broken old men at fifteen wearing decades of sneers.
I tell you the hell of this system will only disappear
when we whom it robs and now whom it punishes for having been stolen from,
Move against them from our emptiness 'till that hell is overthrown.
A nation's kids of every stripe are being lynched by ropes of greed
Instead of being hugged and fed according to their needs.
Jack Hirschman
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<fontfamily><param>Times</param>Verse-Rap Against Youthicide
They're hungry, seriously hungry, by the millions now,
Kids, children under twelve, here, in this country
They're being systematically destroyed, that's right,
Your future is being starved to death, slowly
The deprivations sink in, dull, dislocate, swell up
What shouldn't be swollen, step on what needs lifting,
Break in, break down, break into little people who are
The People, The People you called yourself
One of The People for.
They are being youthicided, and if they run from where
It's poor, if they start running, and if money starts
Appearing in their little pockets as they're running,
If they get delivered by delivering, O yes,
If they get golden by holding and get their rocks off
So that they're essence of bad and deep-street tough,
They'll still be youthicided. They're popping all night
And dropping like flies from a homegrown swat team;
Look what Bella's chow found bleeding at the curb;
A representative of the American teens.
And the dapperest rap that can snap the dope in your head off
And spit the shit out like snake poison is trying to head off
The vicious malicious unloading of even more venom
So that the blooming future of young phenoms not be
Of broken old men at fifteen wearing decades of sneers.
I tell you the hell of this system will only disappear
when we whom it robs and now whom it punishes for having been stolen
from,
Move against them from our emptiness 'till that hell is overthrown.
A nation's kids of every stripe are being lynched by ropes of greed
Instead of being hugged and fed according to their needs.
Jack Hirschman
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is distributed without charge or profit to those who have
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chance martin
Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
468 Turk St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
vox: (415) 346.3740
Fax: (415) 775.5639
coh@sfo.com
http://www.sfo.com/~coh
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