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Miguel Pinero
Miguel Pinero (1947 - 1988) rođen je u Porto Riku,ali od svoje 7 godine je živeo u New York-u.Bio je scenarista,glumac i pesnik.Zajedno sa Miguel Algarinom osniva Nuyorican Poets Cafe.Vec sa 20 godina imao je poduži policijski dosije.Dok je sluzio zatvorsku kaznu u Sing-Sing-u napisao je dramski komad "Short Eyes",koji ga je i proslavio. Umro je od ciroze jetre.
A Lower East Side Poem
by Miguel Piñero
Just once before I die
I want to climb up on a tenement sky
to dream my lungs out till I cry
then scatter my ashes thru
the Lower East Side.
So let me sing my song tonight
let me feel out of sight
and let all eyes be dry
when they scatter my ashes thru
the Lower East Side.
From Houston to 14th Street
from Second Avenue to the mighty D
here the hustlers and suckers meet
the faggots and freaks will all get high
on the ashes that have been scattered
thru the Lower East Side.
There’s no other place for me to be
There’s no other place that I can see
there’s no other town around that
brings you up or keeps you down
no food little heat sweeps by
fancy cars and pimps’ bars and juke saloons
and greasy spoons make my spirits fly
with my ashes scattered thru the
Lower East Side
A thief, a junkie I’ve been
committed every known sin
Jews and Gentiles…Bums and Men
of style-run away child
police shooting wild
mother’s futile wails
pushers making sales dope wheelers
and cocaine dealers smoking pot
streets are hot and feed off those who bleed to death
all that’s true
all that’s true
all that is true
but this ain’t no lie
when I ask that my ashes be scattered thru
the Lower East Side.
So here I am, look at me
I stand proud as you can see
pleased to be from the Lower East
a street fighting man
a problem of this land
I am the Philosopher of the Criminal Mind
a dweller of prison time
a cancer of Rockefeller’s ghettocide
this concrete tomb is my home
to belong to survive you gotta be strong
you can’t be shy less without request
someone will scatter your ashes thru
the Lower East Side.
I don’t wanna be buried in Puerto Rico
I don’t wanna rest in long island cemetery
I wanna be near the stabbing shooting
gambling fighting and unnatural dying
and new birth crying
so please when I die
don’t take me far away
keep me near by
take my ashes and scatter them thru out
the Lower East Side.
* * *
There are things that never change
And we are not one of them my dear,
Trouble with our love is here
The trouble with our love is around
When you can't look me in the eye,and lie
When you run so far away,
That you forget where to go back ...
Now,you are what you never want to be,
Go ahead,blame me ...
There are things that never change
Now we are two strangers with a past
And a future,that ain't gon'a last
And that is a trouble with our love,
Last night we saw things like we never did,
We both went our way,and hid ...
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Pesme
Cocaine Nose - Acid Face
Black Woman With The Blond Wig On
Seekin' The Cause
Visitin' A Friend At The Cold Shop
Spring Garden - Philadelphia
The Book of Genesis According to St. Miguelito
Kill, Kill, Kill
La Bodega Sold Dreams
On The Lock-In
On The Day They Birthed My Mother...
New York City Hard Time Blues
Running Scared
This Is Not The Place Where I Was Born
Jitterbug Jesus
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