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Posts tagged ‘subway’

Planet rock

05/17/2010

Rufus Mangrove

If it’s up to us
We would take control
Bring you down
Then light the whole
World before us
Like it was a match
Touch yourself
And then try to catch
Our flow down below
We’re ladies not hos
So please step aside
Because we have respect inside

Tetris

05/17/2010

Rufus Mangrove

I have a high score of 465 million
My favorite piece is the inverted
Rolganafanoid.
That is the name I gave it
Not because it has
Eight sides or
Is partial to the
L shaped pieces
But that their
Very existence reminds me
Of rolgana,
A girl I went to school
With a long time ago.

Ghost riding the whip

05/15/2010

Rufus Mangrove

We ride dirty

Know the ledge

05/14/2010

Rufus Mangrove

Sip the juice cuz I got enough to go around,
And the thought takes place uptown
I grew up on the sidewalk where I learned street talk,
And then taught to hawk New York-
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken,
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoupe, and lay around.
Time to bulid my juice back up-
Props back up, suckers get smacked up

Damn this sucks

05/14/2010

Rufus Mangrove

Train traffic?
My ass

311

05/14/2010

Rufus Mangrove

Dear 311,

I would like to grow this tree I bought from the union square green market on my head. Are there any special permits the City requires when I do this? How about tax credits?

Sincerely,

Rufus

Nowhere

05/13/2010

Rufus Mangrove

I’m not going nowhere
Because I’m somewhere
A few hundred feet under
Flatbush avenue

The black smoke

05/12/2010

Rufus Mangrove

The black smoke has left the island and is hanging around Brooklyn

Bagman

05/12/2010

Rufus Mangrove

I keep cheddar cheese
Goldfish in my bag
Every so often when I’m feeling
Listless I put my hand in
My bag and touch the goldfish
I know each one by their
Curves and whether they
Have been partially eaten
Sometimes when things get
Really tough at work I bring
The bag into meetings
My colleagues think I’m
Looking for a pen or a paper
When I reach into the bag
But I’m really singing
Quiet songs like twinkle twinkle
Because that’s what they
Like the most.

Little woman

05/12/2010

Rufus Mangrove

I study advanced calculus on the train
Eventhough I took it during
My senior year in high school
No matter because you can
Never get enough review
That’s what my mother used to say
When she forced me to study
Math and science and numbers
When all my friends were playing
Now I get to go out without
A chaperone to the library
Or to school and sometimes to
Go shopping on flatbush avenue