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In Delaware, Twin Poets.

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I heard that dreams are[br]illegal in the ghetto.

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Little black girl, you[br]ain't going to be no dancer.

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I heard that dreams are[br]illegal in the ghetto,

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but I am dreammmming.

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I heard that dreams[br]are illegal,

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but I am dreammmmming.

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I had a dream...

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I had a dream that[br]I was in America.

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I was in America.

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I was actually in the land[br]of the beautiful and the

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home of the brave.

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My boss came into my[br]office and said hi bob,

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how's it going.

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Why don't you take off[br]early and here's that

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raise, and as I pulled my[br]Suburban up to my suburban

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home, I got the mail out[br]of the box I was approved

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for another home[br]equity loan.

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Great.

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The Girl Scouts are there[br]ringing the bell with

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cookies for sale.

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Ding dong.

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Of course I bought a box[br]as Hillary quieted down

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Marmaduke who had begun to[br]bark, and then later on my

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wife and the kids took a[br]bike ride to the park.

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Keep up dear.

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Whe-, when we got back we[br]had apple pie with ice

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cream on top.

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Then we buckled up and[br]headed on down to Black

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Box to get some[br]videos to watch.

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Titanic again?

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When we returned, the[br]kids put on their PJs and

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relaxed in the den for[br]some family time watching

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videos, then all these[br]strangers turned and said

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to me, nigger what[br]are you doing here?

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Don't you know that dreams[br]are illegal in the ghetto.

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What are you doing here?

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Don't you know that dreams[br]are illegal in the ghetto?

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Those gunshots.

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Gunshots ringing in the[br]heat of the night followed

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by screams violently[br]disrupting my dreams.

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You see, in my[br]neighborhood I don't need

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to read the paper, watch[br]the news to know that

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something bad happened[br]around here tonight.

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But once the ambulance[br]leaves and the police

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sirens stop and the crowd[br]disperses, that silence.

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That silence soaked into[br]my soul, sobering my

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senses, and it's often[br]over-intoxicating society,

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and I try to relax.

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I try to relax, but the[br]devil just won't let go.

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He keeps pointing to the[br]signs that are posted all

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around me that read dreams[br]are illegal in the ghetto.

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You see, my neighborhood[br]is the bottom of the

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barrel where[br]drugs get mixed.

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Here there are no brothers[br]and sisters, just confused

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brothers and sisters.

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Here people drowning in[br]the backwash of the latest

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political scandal.

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Here the devil is in sweet[br]control and dreams are

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stole.

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And you know there is no[br]honor amongst thieves, so

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dreams are[br]stolen with ease.

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A high school graduate[br]barely 17 gives up her

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college dreams for a pair[br]of tight jeans and a

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chance to be the next[br]inner city queen.

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Shake what your[br]mama gave you.

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In the inner city...in[br]the inner city checks and

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basketballs bounce[br]with regularity.

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Across and over.

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Life and death in the[br]midst with no disparity.

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Ghetto you've lived for[br]nothing and ghetto you've

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died for nothing.

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Every day blue[br]skies are gray.

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All they know is that[br]they want to make dough.

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We want to get paid kids.

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The devil has them chasing[br]the color of this rainbow,

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and at the end there is no[br]pot of gold, just a pot of

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steam, which he exchanges[br]for their dreams.

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You see, bonafide slaves[br]are made in the devil's

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dream tray.

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Without dreams you are[br]equivalent to being

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nonexistent.

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You see our children[br]need to be told they can

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achieve and that God bless[br]those who hold onto their

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dreams.

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We got to take down the[br]signs so the kids won't

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know that the devil is[br]trying to make dreams not,

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not drugs, but he's trying[br]to make dreams illegal,

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but dreams are[br]not illegal.

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Thank you.