SLUM KID....(dedicated to ashy valley flats)
Flashbacks haunt me, images of poverty, little slum kid getting six years for robbery, dwelling in the pits, dirty faces and no shoe laces, bruised eyes,scrapes and blood traces, the eighties the nineties, saw the same picture, the noughties, still we craft the same scriptures, its daunting... Trapped in these industrial ghettos, BUT THERE AINT NO MILLS NO MORE SO LET US GO!! little slum kid, thats what they call you in the playground, slum kid, thats what they call you just to keep you down, it sunk in, and now you're out doing stick ups, your brains dead weight and your mentality is GET FUCKED! Not the way you wanna live but wheres the option? Try to get a job, but know the imigrants have got them, dont try and twist that and label me a racist, im just pulling truth out the dark, so we can face it....
Noetic-fret!
Mon 6th Apr 2009 00:46
Hi Yosh, I like your work. I know these kids and I too was once one of these kids, and still am. I must admit though, the word immigrant is banded around too freely. Especially when blame is directed at a particular group of peoples. This I feel is letting your work down. There are many reasons immigrants are working in this country, and having travelled overseas we have many more brits, exploiting markets in foreign climes. If you want a name for those who are exploting the immigrants here, its Capitalist. For it is the capitalists that are exploiting them, and want no better than to employ people at lower wage. I just feel it is a trend that you can rise above. You have the talent and intellect to do that. Just a little positive criticism there for you. If you want to see what some of us brits get up to overseas, there are a number of places i could tell you about. Where the local culture is disrespected to a certain degree by british people. There are the Euro Villages of Dharan and Riyadh, and various other places. I would also like to add this too. Britain is a violent place, many come here because britain advertises overseas, and, we cream the best of the third world in what is termed the Brain Drain. You are ten times more likely to be the subject of violence in britain, than you are in the indian subcontinent. Rise above the candour of tabloid media, and you will go far. I promise ya. Keep it coming blue. Just a few words to ponder on.
Mike