Books by Thomas Long

Reflections of My Soul  /  Papa Don't Preach / A Thug's Life  / Cash Rules / Around the Way Girls

DVD:  4 Life ( a film based on the novel A Thug's Life)

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Thug Life

2 All My Street Soldiers

                  By Thomas Long

Drama, excitement

street lights blare

No time to be scared

in this urban warfare

Where the fiends scheme

while the hustlers sell their souls

A world of its own

where many tragedies unfold

"Thug Life" is what U call it

where only soldiers prevail

The rites of passage for a Black man?

5 years in a state jail

Is this what Pac meant

for us to die locked in a cell?

Or for us to come together

and find our way outta hell?

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posted 4/21/04