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Yolanda Watson

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

6 poems·Since July 2014

I am an 18 year old college student who who has always had a strong love for both music and poetry. I am a singer as well as a spoken word poet. I currently reside in New York City more specifically in Brooklyn. I have performed some of my poetry at places such as The Nuyorican Poets Cafe and The Inspired Word presented by Mike Geffner. I am so blessed to have also been able to perform on The World Famous Apollo Theater Stage as a finalist for Urban Words NYC Teen Poetry Slam. I love the art of performing as well as expressing myself through written word. I never could have imagined years ago that I would be able to do exactly what I love and share it with so many people and now that I know it is possible I never want to stop.

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Icy Revenge

July 20, 2014

ALL SHE WANTED

WAS AN ICY

STOOD ON THE CORNER WAITING NIICELY

FOR THE TRUCK SHE KNEW HARBORED ICE CREAM

HER NAME WAS LIL MIA, ALL HER NEIGHBORS SHE INSPIRED CUZ THEY SAID HER HEART WAS MADE OF GOLD.

SHE NEVER CAUSED TROUBLE, HER PARENTS SAID SHE HAD AN OLD SOUL.

 

MR. ROGER HAD GIVEN HER THE DOLLA 

SAID "ITS HOT OUT BABY GIRL GON AND GETCHU SOMETHIN COLD"

ALL SHE WANTED

WAS AN ICY...

 

ALL MARCUS WANTED 

WAS REVENGE

SAID "THAT MOTHERFUCKA GON GET IT HAD THE NERVE TO KILL MY BEST FRIEND. MOTHERFUCKA GON MEET HIS END"

 

ALL HE WANTED WAS REVENGE

 

MEANWHILE, LIL MIA WAS STILL ON THE CORNER WAITING ON THE ICE CREAM MAN

CUZ ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN ICY

HELD THE DOLLA GIVEN TO HER BY MR.ROGER, CRISP AND GREEN IN HER LIL HAND.

SAW HER MAMA SMILING DOWN FROM THEIR 4TH FLOOR APARTMENT WINDOW... 

SHE LOOKED UP AND WONDERED IF ONE DAY SHE'D BE ABLE TO FLY THAT HIGH.... MAYBE EVEN TOUCH THE SKY

SHE ALWAYS DREAMT OF SOMEDAY HAVING WINGS... 

BUT FOR NOW ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN ICY

 

NOTHING BUT REVENGE IN HIS EYES HE SPOTTED THE DUDE THAT PUT AN END TO HIS BESTFRIEND...

ONLY THOUGHT IN HIS MIND WAS 

~MOTHAFUCKA DON'T DESERVE TA LIVE~

HE WAS RAISED BY THE STREETS 

SO IN HIS MIND HE SAID 

~THIS IS HOW IT GOTTA BE~

WASN'T THINKIN BOUT THE CONSEQUENCE

THOUGHT WASN'T NOTHIN FLAWED ABOUT HIS MASTER PLAN

~SIMPLY SHOOT THE DUDE AND DIP~

WASN'T ANTICIPATING LIL MIA BEING PRESENT ON THE CORNER AND WHEN HE SAW HER HE GOT A LITTLE TENSE.

HIS MIND WAS TELLING HIM 

~HE WOULD NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE LIKE THIS~

SO HE PUT HIS HOOPTIE IN PARK, FIGURED HE HAD A CLEAR SHOT.

 

Here comes the ice cream man....

 

RIGHT WHEN MARCUS PULLED THE TRIGGER TO SHOOT DOWN HIS BEST FRIENDS KILLA 

LIL MIA WENT DASHIN TOWARD THE ICE CREAM TRUCK UNKNOWINGLY ABOUT TO RECEIVE HER WINGS...

 

HE MEANT TO SHOOT HIS BESTFRIENDS KILLA... INSTEAD HIS BULLET CAUGHT LIL MIA RIGHT IN HER HEART.... MADE OF GOLD....

 

LAST THING SHE HEARD WAS THE ICE CREAM TRUCK AND HER MAMA FROM THEIR 4TH FLOOR WINDOW SCREAMIN...

 "NOOOOOO!"

 

LIL MIA STILL CLUTCHED THE DOLLA GIVEN TO HER BY MR. ROGER... 

NO LONGER GREEN AND CRISP IN HER LITTLE HAND

 

~LORD KNOWS WHAT THE DOLLA REPRESENTS~

 

ALL SHE WANTED 

WAS AN ICY

 

MARCUS SPED OFF, FEAR TAKIN OVER HIS EYES AND CHANGIN THE SHAPE OF HIS FACE.

HE LOOKED OVER AT HIS PASSENGER SEAT...SAW THE GHOST OF HIS BESTFRIEND MIKEY

HE SAID

 " Homie, you know this shit aint have to be. Killin him wasn't gon bring me back and frankly I was tired of hustlin on them streets"

MARCUS LOOKED FRANTICALLY BACK AT THE ROAD, HEADIN TOWARDS THE BRIDGE HE HEARD NEAR BY SIRENS AND KNEW THEY WERE COMING FOR HIM.

HE TOOK ANOTHER LOOK AT HIS PASSENGER SEAT AND THIS TIME DIDN'T SEE MIKEY, BUT LIL MIA....

WAVING AND SAYING

"Thank you for giving me my wings! I can fly you see!"

AS HIS CAR WHIRLED OVER THE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE....

 

MARCUS, WAS USE TO GETTIN HIGH.. BUT HE NEVER DID LEARN HOW TO SWIM....

 

 

Lil Mia was but 8 years old,

Marcus 24

you see....

REVENGE DON'T COME CHEAP AND 9 TIMES OUT OF 10... ITS ICY

 

 

 

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