nia imani Biography

KIck me again
And watch me deflate-
A once new soccer ball
Promised fair play,
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'Let's try and work this out, ' one said.
'Shut up and listen to me, ' the other said,
Never realizing that in the first's head
This signified that they were already dead.
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Of all the people I have loved,
U r undoubtedly the hardest 2 miss:
No 1 could b as mean as u;
No 1 could duplicate your kiss.
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Do not tell me that I cannot sing:
I never asked for your critique!
As one cannot tell a caged bird to keep quiet,
So one cannot quell that innermost riot
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All the same,
Yet each unique:
Peculiar sameness
Of each different piece;
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