Where Is Rufus and What did Rufus Do?
Where is Rufus?
Was he walking down Fifth Avenue?
Was he carrying his 'light'...
To shine upon the masses leaning
On the slime slicked walls,
Of the caverns he enjoys?
Where is that boy?
'Rufus? '
I'm surprised he's not behind you now,
Minting his breath with peppermint shield...
As If to conceal his devotion to rock bottom!
Trying to hide the current 'opportunities' taken!
Everyone knows Rufus when he's 'fakin'!
There is no mistaking that!
A 'fakin' crook will hold you back!
Where is Rufus?
I thought you two met on Trumbull and Pratt?
Remember I was 'told' to stay where I was at?
You've got to remember how I balled my fist?
You don't remember this?
How about my ready to fight tight lips?
When you do see Rufus...
Tell him I want my wallet back!
I'm not a grinning politician,
I will kick his ass for that!
If he wants to see me evil...
Evil will be his in attack!
I'm not on that kind of mission,
I've reconditioned my position!
I hate to see him strung out like this,
He needs to end my suspicions,
By facing his condition!
'RUFUS? '
Where is Rufus?
Don't hide his lieing ways,
Or try to keep him from his grave!
Unless you're here to get your pay!
Where is Rufus?
And what did he say?
And why are you looking,
Like you laid Rufus away?
Did he take you like he took me too?
Is that why you look at me like you do?
Where is Rufus?
He got you and you're screwed! ?
So you did him in,
To never do that again to you?
Where is Rufus?
'Rufus? '
And what did Rufus do? ?
Why do you have blood on your hands?
And why is there mud on your shoes?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Mad Issues
[Angie] Uh huh
[Rufus] Hey baby
[Angie] I think I wanna just rap to ya for just a second
[Rufus] 'Bout what
[Angie] Cuz there's some things we got to change
In order to move forward
[Rufus] Whatchu talking about?
[Angie] Because I believe in you
[Rufus] You believe in me?
[Angie] All things are possible
[Rufus] Uh huh
[Angie] You just chill
song performed by by Angie Stone from Mahogany Soul
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Ole' Rufus
A field of white petals with a yellow center
As far as the eye could see
Not a flower most prefer
Wild and free
Slinking and stalking
Old Rufus the cat
Listen closely and you can hear his squawking
As he spies an opossum rat
Twice his size
But ole’ Rufus is fearless
Green eyes spy and off he flies
A giant pounce and success
Rolled up in a ball
Mr. Opossum plays his role
Playing his death call
Confirming his triumph with a swipe of kitty’s claw
And ole’ Rufus is back on the prowl
Guarding his territory
Giving his master a good morning howl
Then pouncing off to begin another story
poem by Patricia Gale
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Two in the Head
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy
that her husband, Rufus,73 years old,
was 'a wonderful man when he was awake'
but he had been jerking 'something terrible'
during his sleep and kept waking her up.
He'd swing his arms, she said,
like all those martial arts men on television.
But when the bouts were over, he'd kiss her
on the forehead and go to bed.
'He was just a doll, ' she said,
'when he was awake.'
In the last month, however,
Rufus had fallen out of bed three times
'fighting' in his dreams.
In the morning he'd explain
he had been dreaming
that he was in a fight at work.
Sometimes he dreamt
he was shooting at burglars
breaking into their house
in the old neighborhood.
That's why they had to move
and that's why he bought a gun,
a little pistol he kept under his pillow.
He even taught her how to shoot one night
when no one else was on the tennis courts
in Sherman Park. She was pretty good, he said,
because most women can't aim.
But last night, she said, Rufus was dreaming again
and he swung his arms like he was chopping
sugar cane in Louisiana before they moved North.
He caught her with an elbow to the eye
and another to the nose just as she was ducking.
Long ago, she'd stopped trying to wake him
because of the pistol under his pillow.
He had reached for it once after she had shaken him.
She screamed and that woke him up
and he wasn't too happy about it.
He said he couldn't sleep the rest of the night.
And he wasn't lying because she was awake all night, too,
listening to him grumble and curse.
A week ago she had taken Rufus to a sleep clinic
where he had stayed overnight and the doctor said
he was suffering from sleep apnea. But she had never heard
of sleep apnea causing someone to thrash and kick like Rufus.
She sang with a lady in the choir at church
whose husband had sleep apnea
but all he ever did 'was snore too loud, '
no thrashing about.
'So that's how it happened, '
Zenobia told Officer Murphy
who was very busy taking notes.
Rufus had reached under the pillow
for the pistol and she had to stop him.
No one else was around to help her.
'Two in the head, ' she said,
'and he be dead.'
poem by Donal Mahoney
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An Angry Smile...
Bright shiney teeth that could outshine the moon at night
Glowing eyes, lashes were natural I hate make-up
The foundation that keeps my nation out of the light
I fell for her thoughts, they way she thinks of make up
She said its non African, something foreign
It would make her look foreign...
To her culture, demolished imposter
That was her closure...
Beauty Magazines is not her style...she has her own style! ! !
By: Rufus Thupana Mashao
a.k.a Roof
poem by Rufus Mashao
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Happy Family
Happy family, one hand clap, four went by and
None come back.
Brother judas, ash and sack, swallowed aphrodisiac.
Rufus, silas, jonah too sang, well blow our own
Canoes,
Poked a finger in the zoo, punctured all the ballyhoo
Whipped the world and beat the clock, wound up
With their share of stock.
Silver rolls from golden rock, shaken by a knock,
Knock, knock.
Happy family, wave that grin, what goes round
Must surely spin;
Cheesecake, mousetrap, grip-pipe-thynne cried out,
Were not rin tin tin.
Uncle rufus grew his nose, threw away his circus
Clothes
Cousin silas grew a beard, drew another flask of
Weird
Nasty jonah grew a wife, judas drew his pruning
Knife.
Happy family one hand clap, four went on but none
Came back
Happy family, pale applause, each to his revolving
Doors.
Silas searching, rufus neat, jonah caustic, jude
So sweet.
Let their sergeant mirror spin if we lose the barbers
Win;
Happy family one hand clap, four went on but none
Came back
song performed by by King Crimson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Bone Against Steel
Rollin' out to Vegas
On an eastbound outta L.A.
I met a roughneck man who hailed from Alabama
His eyes had a lot to say
And his name was Rufus Champion
They call that train the desert wind
And it blew like a mutha that day
Thru the Joshua Trees
We were battin' the breeze
About our rock'n roll heros
Dead or alive
Chorus:
Out across that night did we sail
Bone against steel against the rail
Boats against the stream
Cutting against the grain
Kept on rollin'
Bone against steel
As the moon rose in the window
Rufus began his tale
About an oil rig near the gulf coast
Puttin' man against metal
In a classic work-place accident
He told how the drill commenced to shakin'
The platform started to rock
The chain began breaking
They were straight out of luck
And then the sky kinda lite up
Just like a lightnin' bolt had struck
Chorus:
Workmen's compensation don't compensate for much
With the doctors and lawyers and the IRS and such
You can break up the bone
But the spirit just won't bust
When is bone against steel
With casino lights up a shimmering
We made that Vegas stop
And we laughed away our blues
Now here's the good news
Rufus walks off heels a kickin'
With his baby right by his side
And as they waltzed on out of view
We were back up to speed
And clean outta sight
Double chorus
song performed by by 38 Special
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Let the little fairy in you fly!
quote by Rufus Wainwright
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A book is the only immortality.
quote by Rufus Choate
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
quote by Rufus Wainwright
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This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
quote by Rufus King
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I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.
quote by Rufus Sewell
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
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Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.
quote by Catherine McCormack
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
quote by Rufus Jones
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
quote by Edie Brickell
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
quote by Rufus Wainwright
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
quote by Quintus Curtius Rufus
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
quote by Rufus Wainwright
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
quote by Rufus Wainwright
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
quote by Rufus Choate
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I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.
quote by Rufus Wainwright
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