Songs of Anisha
“A Walk Down the Avenue,”
by D.M.D. Goodhead
My love, let us walk down the Avenue
And feel the gentle sway of the rolling
River.
My love, let us walk down the Avenue,
And see the laughing lady arrayed
In her finest apparel.
O love, let us walk down the Avenue,
And feel the heartbeat of the day,
The heartbeat of being,
The heartbeat of the world,
The heartbeat of two souls,
Old world, new world,
Beating side by side, beating side by side,
Walking hand in hand down the merry Avenue.
“Joining the Crumbs,”
by Emmanuel Sigauke
The taste of this life
Forbids pretenses for joy:
Yesterday she watched
Her daughter crumble
After the school expelled her.
She did go to school
Her ex-husband, the idiot,
Barely scraped middle school
But to watch her own daughter
Only thirteen, convert to the streets!
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