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Blue Collar Broadcast Blue Collar Broadcast irregularly features new working class poetry and prose. If you would like to submit something for publication here, email it to tilt-a-whirl-broadcast@summersault.com Old broadcasts
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Finster K. Rain freeverse12oh5p.m.1920's'30s NYC on i mind
smoked O P B's (other people's butts) at age 9
left skool to work during that time(.)(his)dad's speakeasy N craps(.)
from factories L.I.C., De Nobali Cigars, Milkbottles'glassjars.
Unloading grapes on the docks inwhich J. Majurri
would recieve a nickle for each case stock.PLAZA HOTEL bellhop.
Yuh uncle a Barber would go uptown
when
LITTLE ITALY NORTH(east Harlem) was also beni with
'LITTLE ITALY SOUTH(down town) Stories
stories which no one 'would remember. Vino
vino
bread cheese vino vino
vino
vino "no more please."Uncle would sing
from his wine
filled belly
den always den
it would be time to go. Homebound- Astoria/Ravenswood
eastriverhome thee otherside(queensboroughbridge)Manhattan zone.
And you think Thee Movie$
showed what went down?
Honor, BiznE$$ that was sound?
HA!("?!yea?!")
running the numbuhz racket,protection,ladies,
outta thuh truck cigar$/ciguhrett$,
gamblin,
ladie$, and
A N Y T ' I N G
eh hand could pocket,
well den(innocent hardworking UhmehRika)
even den DOPE
would make uh lot eh -written by finster k . rain
copyrighted 1998 *UHNUHTHUHSLOPPYCIPYRIGHT*
*
-- for all the sons and daughters of Rocco and Katherine
Perilli and all the offspring that has come.
email the author: Finster K. Rain
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