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DU-WOP BOYS
by Billye Okera → (All Poetry by Billye Okera)
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I sat and listen to four 14-year old girls talk very glibly about recent abortions as i there was really nothing to it. I felt horrified, and sad, and troubled.

 

 Du-wop boys sit on the stoop

While booty-short girls speak of stone-cold souls

They’ve sent to cisterns.

Neither winking nor thinking

That years to come they will wear a lowered brow

Beating their chests in sack-cloths of regret.

But, the du-wop boys will go on singing their dittys

Sitting pretty on a South-East DC street

Repeating the names of babies flushed away

While they were playing...men.

 
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 Reviews of "DU-WOP BOYS"
Reviewed by J. Joy Matthews Alford - Sistah Joy
Reviewed on July 25, 2012
Perhaps your words posted here will find their way to the eye or ear of at least one 13 or 14-year-old, who will, in turn, break the cycle that leads to such heartbreak. Blessings to you Billye.
Reviewed by Sandy Hoynacki (Reader)
Reviewed on July 24, 2012
You have well depicted a sad state of living..Or calling it living.. Much depth in this one....

Sandy
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