Harrison Street Court
I heard a woman's lips
Speaking to a companion
Say these words:
"A woman what hustles
Never keeps nothin'
For all her hustlin'.
Somebody always gets
What she goes on the street for.
If it ain't a pimp
It's a bull what gets it.
I been hustlin' now
Till I ain't much good any more.
I got nothin' to show for it.
Some man got it all,
Every night's hustlin' I ever did."
poem by Carl Sandburg
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Need Some Love
Words and music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
Im runnin here
Im runnin there
Im lookin for a girl
cause theres nothin I need
Theres nothin I want more
In the whole wide world
Well, I need it quick
And I need it now
Before I start to fade away
Thats why Im searchin
Thats why Im lookin
Each and evry day
Oo, I need some love
I said I need some love!
Oo yes, I need some love
This feelin I cant rise above
Yeah, yeah!
Well I been hustlin here,
I been hustlin there
I been searchin for about a week
And I started feelin
This strange sensation
My knees are startin gettin weak
Well I need what keeps
A young man alive,
Im sayin I need it now
Im gonna get the message
Across to you
Someway, somehow
Oo, I need some love
I said I need some love!
Oo yes, I need some love
This feelin I cant rise above
Oo, yeah yeah!
song performed by by Rush
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I Need Some Love
I'm runnin' here,
I'm runnin' there.
I'm lookin' for a girl.
'Cause there's nothin' I need,
there's nothin' I want more
in the whole wide world.
Well, I need it quick
and I need it now,
before I start to fade away.
That's why I'm searchin',
that's why I'm lookin'
each and ev'ry day.
Oo, I need some love.
I said I need some love!
Oo yes, I need some love
This feelin' I can't rise above.
Yeah, yeah!
Well I been hustlin' here,
I been hustlin' there.
I been searchin' for about a week.
And I started feelin'
this strange sensation.
My knees are startin' gettin' weak.
Well I need what keeps
a young man alive;
I'm sayin' I need it now.
I'm gonna get the message
across to you
someway, somehow.
Oo, I need some love.
I said I need some love!
Oo yes, I need some love
This feelin' I can't rise above.
Oo, yeah yeah
song performed by by Rush
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Nothing Like A Woman
Oh theres nothin like a woman
When youre all alone
No theres nothin like a woman
To make a man come home
Shes always there to understand
The little boy inside of the man
Oh theres nothin like a woman
Nothin at all
She knows when to hold you
And when to leave you alone
Shes there to console you
When everything in the worlds gone wrong
She lights a candle
And gets that look in her eye
And shes says boy you can handle
Staying up with me all night
Oh theres nothin like a woman
When youre all alone no theres nothin like her lovin
To make a man come home
Shes always there to understand
The little boy inside of the man
No theres nothin like a woman
Nothin at all
No theres nothin like a woman
When youre all alone
No theres nothin like a woman
To make a man come home
Shes always there to understand
The little boy inside of the man
No theres nothin like a woman
Nothin at all
song performed by by Vince Gill
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One Love Stand
(paul barrere/bill payne/kenny gradney)
Its been a one man show that Ive been runnin
On a two way street for love
I see no end to the dead end
til you come back home again
Ive tried everything to keep remembering
(chorus)
One good woman
One good man
Two shots of hapiness in one life span
It takes one good woman and one good man
To make one love stand
The only thing that hurts is the memory
Of having once lived by myself
I tired every kind of hustlin man
I put my love out on the shelf
He took everything and left my ears ringing
I feel at home in a foreign land
You know whats next when theres nothing planned
Im talking bout love
You know it takes two
He took everything and left my ears ringing
song performed by by Carly Simon
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Nobody Loves You
Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine
I've been across to the other side
I've shown you everything, i got nothing to hide
And still you ask me do i love you, what it is, what it is
All i can tell you is it's all show biz
All i can tell you is it's all show biz
Nobody loves you when you're down and out
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine
Everybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine
I've been across the water now so many times
I've seen the one eyed witchdoctor leading the blind
And still you ask me do i love you, what you say, what you say
Everytime i put my finger on it, it slips away
Everytime i put my finger on it, it slips away
Well i get up in the morning and i'm looking in the mirror to see, ooo wee!
Then i'm lying in the darkness and i know i can't get to sleep, ooo wee!
Nobody loves you when you're old and grey
Nobody needs you when you're upside down
Everybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground
song performed by by Lennon John
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Nobody Loves You
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you'll scratch mine.
I've been across to the other side,
I've shown you ev'rything, i got nothing to hide.
And still you ask me, do i love you?
What it is? what it is?
All i can tell you is it's all show biz,
All i can tell you is it's all show biz.
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine.
I've been across the water now so many times,
I've seen the one-eyed witchdoctor leading the blind.
And still you ask me, do i love you?
What you say? what you say?
Ev'ry time i put my finger on it, it slips away,
Ev'ry time i put my finger on it, it slips away.
Well, i get up in the morning
And i'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-wee!
Then i'm lying in the darkness
And i know i can't get to sleep, oo-wee!
Nobody loves you when you're old and grey,
Nobody needs you when you're upside down.
Ev'rybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday,
Ev'rybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
song performed by by Yoko Ono
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Nobody Loves You
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody sees you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you'll scratch mine.
I've been across to the other side,
I've shown you ev'rything, i got nothing to hide.
And still you ask me, do i love you?
What it is? what it is?
All i can tell you is it's all show biz,
All i can tell you is it's all show biz.
Nobody loves you when you're down and out,
Nobody knows you when you're on cloud nine.
Ev'rybody's hustlin' for a buck and a dime,
I'll scratch your back and you knife mine.
I've been across the water now so many times,
I've seen the one-eyed witchdoctor leading the blind.
And still you ask me, do i love you?
What you say? what you say?
Ev'ry time i put my finger on it, it slips away,
Ev'ry time i put my finger on it, it slips away.
Well, i get up in the morning
And i'm looking in the mirror to see, oo-wee!
Then i'm lying in the darkness
And i know i can't get to sleep, oo-wee!
Nobody loves you when you're old and grey,
Nobody needs you when you're upside down.
Ev'rybody's hollerin' 'bout their own birthday,
Ev'rybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
song performed by by Yoko Ono
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Abelard and Heloïse
["There are so many things I want to talk to you about." Abelard probably said to Heloïse, "but how can I when I can only think about kissing you?" --KATHARINE LANE in the Evening Mail.]
Said Abelard to Heloïse:
"Your tresses blowing in the breeze
Enchant my soul; your cheek allures;
I never knew such lips as yours."
Said Heloïse to Abelard:
"I know that it is cruel, hard,
To make you fold your yearning arms
And think of things besides my charms."
Said Abelard to Heloïse:
"Pray, lets discuss the Portuguese;
Their status in the League of Nations.
. . . . Come, slip me seven osculations.
"The Fourteen Points," said Heloïse,
"Are pure Woodrovian fallacies."
Said Abelard: "Ten times fourteen
The points you have, O beaucoup queen!"
"Lay off," said Heloïse, "all that stuff.
I've heard the same old thing enough."
"But," answered Abelard, "your lips
Put all my thoughts into eclipse."
"O Abelard," said Heloïse,
"Don't take so many liberties."
"I do it but to show regard."
And Heloïse told her chum that night
That Abelard was Awful Bright;
And--thus is drawn the cosmic plan--
She loved an Intellectual Man.
poem by Franklin P. Adams
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A Woman In Love
She laughed in my face, told me good-bye
Said "don't think about it, you can go crazy
Any thing can happen, anything can end
Don't try to fight it, don't try to save me"
She's a woman in love
And he's gonna break her heart to pieces
She don't want to see
She's a woman in love, but it's not me
Well all rig ht, do what you want
Don't try to talk, don't say nothin'
She used to be the kind of woman
You have and you hold, she could understand the problem
She let the little things go
She's a woman in love
And he's gonna break her hea rt to pieces
But she don't wanna know
She's a woman in love, she can't let go
Time after time, night after night
She would look up at me and say she was lonely
I don't understand what she needed
I gave her everything, she threw it all away on nothin'
She's a woman in love
song performed by by Tom Petty
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Sonnet V: Nothing But No
Nothing but "No," and "Aye," and "Aye," and "No"?
How falls it out so strangely you reply?
I tell ye, Fair, I'll not be answer'd so,
With this affirming "No," denying "Aye."
I say, "I love," you slightly answer "Aye";
I say, "You love," you pule me out a "No";
I say, "I die," you echo me an "Aye";
"Save me," I cry, you sigh me out a "No";
Must woe and I have nought but "No" and "Aye"?
No I am I, if I no more can have;
Answer no more, with silence make reply,
And let me take myself what I do crave.
Let "No" and "Aye" with I and you be so;
Then answer "No," and "Aye," and "Aye" and "No."
poem by Michael Drayton
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The ABC
'Twas midnight in the schoolroom
And every desk was shut
When suddenly from the alphabet
Was heard a loud "Tut-Tut!"
Said A to B, "I don't like C;
His manners are a lack.
For all I ever see of C
Is a semi-circular back!"
"I disagree," said D to B,
"I've never found C so.
From where I stand he seems to be
An uncompleted O."
C was vexed, "I'm much perplexed,
You criticise my shape.
I'm made like that, to help spell Cat
And Cow and Cool and Cape."
"He's right" said E; said F, "Whoopee!"
Said G, "'Ip, 'Ip, 'ooray!"
"You're dropping me," roared H to G.
"Don't do it please I pray."
"Out of my way," LL said to K.
"I'll make poor I look ILL."
To stop this stunt J stood in front,
And presto! ILL was JILL.
"U know," said V, "that W
Is twice the age of me.
For as a Roman V is five
I'm half as young as he."
X and Y yawned sleepily,
"Look at the time!" they said.
"Let's all get off to beddy byes."
They did, then "Z-z-z."
poem by Spike Milligan
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The Woman At The Gate
"Where is your little boy to-day?"
I asked her at the gate.
"I used to see him at his play,
And often I would wait:
He was so beautiful, so bright,
I watched him with delight.
"He had a tiny motor-car
And it was painted red;
He wound it up; it ran so far,
So merrily it sped.
I think he told me that it was
A gift from Santa Claus."
The woman said: "It ran so far
He followed it with joy.
Then came a real motor-car,--
He sought to save his toy . . .
My little boy is far away
Where angel children play.
"His father perished in the War;
Now I am all alone,
And death is all I'm longing for . . ."
So said with face of stone
That woman. "Curse their crazy cars
And cruel wars!"
poem by Robert William Service
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You're right—
234
You're right—"the way is narrow"—
And "difficult the Gate"—
And "few there be"—Correct again—
That "enter in—thereat"—
'Tis Costly—So are purples!
'Tis just the price of Breath—
With but the "Discount" of the Grave—
Termed by the Brokers—"Death"!
And after that—there's Heaven—
The Good Man's—"Dividend"—
And Bad Men—"go to Jail"—
I guess—
poem by Emily Dickinson
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LYIN WOMAN...by talile ali
LYIN WOMAN
AINT NOTHIN LIKE A LYIN WOMAN
WILL HURT YOU EVERY TIME
AINT NOTHIN LIKE A LYIN WOMAN
HURT YOU EVERY TIME
SAY THAT SHE LOVES YOU
WHILE SHE DOES A FRIEND OF MINE
YOU SAY YOU FEELING IFFY
YOU SAY SHE TREATS YOU LIKE DIRT
YOU SAY YOU FEELING FISHY
YOU GOT YOURSELF A TWO TIMIN JERK
SAYS YOU BETTER GET TA STEPPIN
CAUSE SHES GOT ANOTHER MAN TO WORK
YOU CAN'T GET NO LOVING
THE WOMANS GOT NO HEART
YOU JUST CAN'T GET NO LOVIN
AS SHE TEARS YOUR HEARTS APART
SHE'S GONNA BE DOING SOMEONE
WHILE YOUR LEFT YANKING IN THE DARK
AINT NOTHIN LIKE A LYIN WOMAN
WILL HURT YOU EVERY TIME
AINT NOTHIN LIKE A LYIN WOMAN
HURT YOU EVERY TIME
SAY THAT SHE LOVES YOU
WHILE SHE DOES ANOTHER MAN
poem by Talile Ali
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Our Captain's Last Words
Where the foremost flag was flying,
Pierce'd by manny a shot and shell,
Where the bravest men were dying,
There our gallant captain fell.
"Boys! you follow now another;
Follow till the foe shall yield;"
Then he whisper'd, "Tell my mother
Stephen died upon the field."
"Mother!"
"Moth er!"
"Stephen died upon the field."
Through the battle they bore him,
But his words were growing wild;
Heeding not the scenes before him,
Stephen was once more a child.
"Ah, she comes! there is no other
Speaks my name with such a joy;
Press me to your bosom, mother,
Call my still your darling joy."
"Mother!"
"Mother !"
"Call my still your darling joy."
Men who were not used to weeping,
Turn'd aside to hide a tear,
When they saw the pallor creeping,
That assured them death was near.
Kindly as he were a brother,
Strangers caught his parting breath,
Laden with the mumur "mother"
Last upon his lips in death.
"Mother!"
"Mother!&qu ot;
Last upon his lips in death.
poem by Henry Clay Work
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In The Moonlight
"O lonely workman, standing there
In a dream, why do you stare and stare
At her grave, as no other grave where there?"
"If your great gaunt eyes so importune
Her soul by the shine of this corpse-cold moon,
Maybe you'll raise her phantom soon!"
"Why, fool, it is what I would rather see
Than all the living folk there be;
But alas, there is no such joy for me!"
"Ah - she was one you loved, no doubt,
Through good and evil, through rain and drought,
And when she passed, all your sun went out?"
"Nay: she was the woman I did not love,
Whom all the other were ranked above,
Whom during her life I thought nothing of."
poem by Thomas Hardy
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The Formula of Love
Man's logic is so illustrative and simple,
He thinks he is so nimble.
Remembering the words of the great Pushkin:
"The less we love a woman the more she likes us",
He is neither in a hurry nor in a fuss
To express his feelings and…. Alas!
There is nothing more here to discuss
From the attitudes of the poetic lyrics.
Pushkin's words are not yardsticks.
The times have changed
Everything has been rearranged.
Today a woman would say:
"The less you love me the more I'll love the other men."
Hey, man! A woman is not a hen. Do you understand?
©Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)
March 26th,2012
poem by Larisa Rzhepishevska
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Formula of Love
Man's logic is so illustrative and simple,
He thinks he is so nimble.
Remembering the words of the great Pushkin:
"The less we love a woman the more she likes us",
He is neither in a hurry nor in a fuss
To express his feelings and…. Alas!
There is nothing more here to discuss
From the attitudes of the poetic lyrics.
Pushkin's words are not yardsticks.
The times have changed
Everything has been rearranged.
Today a woman would say:
"The less you love me the more I'll love the other men."
Hey, man! A woman is not a hen. Do you understand?
©Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)
March 26th,2012
poem by Larisa Rzhepishevska
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Separation Of Difference
Woman you are powerful…
In two ways…your strength…
Which makes you rare and unique…
And your womanhood…
Whatever else is added is all good…
There is a high road…
There is a low road…
Both have equal travel…
That is why strength matters…
For whoever land you may stand…
Be it woman of man…
You must show your best…
Let no one quest…or…
Request…
You my sweet, sweet (Lady) you are a (Northern Light) …
Who has taken flight with no plight…
View your might as well…
It's your womanhood…Ooooo…
"That Lady Be"…would…could…
Should…only if she wish…
To become someone's dish…
Remember (WOMAN) you are two-fold…
I reckon twice as nice…meaning hell…
On wheels…
Whatever the deal…
Never get stolen…
Or accidentally swollen…
"YOU ARE GOLDEN"…in every way…
That is what the ONE in the heaven say…
(Night or day…fun or play) ...
Yes, …is only no…when you say so.
For a friend name Lili
poem by whisperkwane Lamb
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There was a land where lived no violets
There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded : "Why?"
The people told him:
"Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
'Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.'"
Sadly the people added:
"There are no violets here."
poem by Stephen Crane
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