Where Stars Are Born



Where stars are born.
And fresh crimes are permitted to commit.
Hair and make up glam squads arrive.
Early in the morning before the Sun rises.

These are 'selfie' taken days.
To ensure appearances made,
Are pleasing enough to attract viewers.
Whether the scene had been,
Where a crime took place.
Or strolling through a neighborhood,
Exchanging with the residents...
About paying exorbitant rent to slumlords.
Living in the suburbs in guarded communities.
Feasting to feed more greed,
Off of the backs of the needy.
Competing with rats for food to eat.

And where these people live,
To once have called them ghettos.
Poverty areas identified,
By the creation of zip codes?
Had then emblazoned upon the buildings,
Stars and symbols to represent...
Who they were.

And today,
The way they discriminate...
Is to take from those they have stolen from.
To declare it theirs to own.
With a doing to prove and show,
A suffering to have this accepted to believe...
They are not the masters of oppression.
Or the evil doers of misdeeds,
Victimizing continously...
Those living in urban cities.
Made to qualify for opportunities.
Created by those,
Who can neither read nor write.
But inherited the theft of their wealth,
From illiterate ancestors.
Illegitimately living anywhere they please.
Where stars are born corrupting laws.
And have turned fraud into an industry!
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Written on July 02, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 02, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAB XXCDXXXBEXFX AGXXXXX XXXXXXDXXEEGXXCEXF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,360
Words 267
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 12, 7, 18

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