'How To Create Trenton'
© Raul Cortes Jr. 12/28/17
A small town with big poverty.
No benefit to have enemies, logically.
11,000 minorities per sq mile.
We are accused of crimes, blind to who created the conditions so foul.
7.5 sq miles large, 88,000 people.
Do the math, the close-proximity is lethal.
Trenton High School had a 71% poverty rate.
To make it out the hood, you got to be great.
19,000$ for a family of four.
"I wonder why hoodlums lie, cheat & steal if they don't have to be poor?".
Trenton is a zone for a people who are sacrificed.
If that wasn't the case, then no need for this poem that I have to write..
..A line has been drawn around what this city is today.
Lets connect Hamilton, Lawrenceville & Ewing townships back as it was a century ago, its a better way.
I'm about to laugh out loud because its not going to happen.
Countless irreversal-crimes the government has committed & karma has already been enacted.
The wealthy don't want to invest, they want to DI-VEST.
There's a bullet with 'hiroshima' written on it for America, this country will die with a vest.
Who but poverty, can concentrate better?
Because the drugs & liquor keep us unfocused, hocus pocus notice the musician's sleeveless sweater.
Other cities in new jersey have single-digit poverty percentages.
A law was created for cities like Princeton to pay cities like Trenton for poverty to be inherited..
..In the form of low-income housing.
Ghetto-people is in dire need to love each other, legislation wants us to be rowdy.
Trenton New Jersey is not an anomaly, every ghetto is experiencing the same issue.
And most effective type of handcuffs are wrapped around the brain-tissue.
Systematic racism, 'School-To-Prison' pipeline.
How does public education reflect solutions to thrive in the ghetto? (Part of the reason why I write rhymes).
©polo
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