<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>18 Square Miles</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles.<br>And is the home of over four thousand gang members.<br>Some segments of it, <br>Look as if negligence is tolerated.<br>And decadence celebrated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles.<br>And sits in a state that use to brag about its affluence.<br>Clearly with ignorance to salivate.<br>As disrespect for others is shown...<br>And lack of discipline and illiteracy, <br>Considered top rate and obviously condoned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles.<br>With hidden pockets of poverty.<br>Neighborhoods are divided, <br>Into sections like an apartheid.<br>With those who control this...<br>Absent of vision and intelligence free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles.<br>With racism practiced as a way of life.<br>And those who inflict their bigotry, <br>See themselves in a self righteous light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles.<br>And the affects of hunger and homelessness, <br>Is as protected as the theft that goes on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The place is only eighteen square miles, <br>Of illogical standards valued.<br>Eighteen square miles, <br>Of blinded physical and mental abuse! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reflecting a nation, <br>Unraveling from the inside.<br>And using those victimized as an excuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432333" data-title="18 Square Miles de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="The place is only eighteen square miles. And is the home of over four thousand gang members. Some segments of it, Look as if negligence is tolerated. And decadence celebrated. The place is only eighteen square miles. And sits in a state that use..."></div> </div> </div>

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