I Crowned My Damn Self

By Tamara T. Allen

I now live in Dallas, Texas but was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and
raised in Wichita, Kansas. Let my start by saying I am super hyped
about my fi rst publication! My poetry refl ects several aspects of
lifes reality, sometimes animated, sometimes subdued but always
in layman terms. My goal is for my poetry to impel my readers
to take action regarding community involvement, citizen rights,
and our future! The Motto by which I live is if your blessed with
a talent, by all means USE IT! I started winning essay contest
in elementary school, and I have been In Love with my Pen since
then. After Reading my collection on Poems please feel free to
follow me on Twitter @LYRICALQUEEN, or become a friend on my
Facbook/[e-mail]. Thanks in Advance for
Your Support!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468552591

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© 2012 by Tamara T. Allen. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/13/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4685-5260-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-5258-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4685-5259-1 (e)

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I would like to give all respect to my parents Gail & Richard Allen, and my younger sister, Catherine Allen-Franklin. They are my backbone and support system. I love and appreciate your support!

I would like to dedicate my first publication to my beloved friends who are no longer with me: Lionel K. Smith, Michael Calhoun, Tellus J. Colvin,

and Otis Lee Bolden. Your murders were the reason my pen bleeds with expressions and lessons I learned from your too early departures.

Contents

RADICAL THOUGHTS

The Grid

Damn It!

Dust

Mission Accomplished

Brainstorming

In The Midst

Trap Musiq

The Jones

Bloodlines

One Third Percent

Maize

ENTRANCES/EXITS

Nana Rose

Calling From the Sky

From with In

In Memorie Of Shawn Bell

Otis

Obituary of Dub-K

Simba

Goodbye

Catching Up

T.J.C.

Remembering it All

BLABBING TO MY SISTA'S!

99.9%

Sleeping Beauty

Love

To My Fellow Ladies!!!!!

My Uterus

Wo-Man

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MY SOUL

Feb262004

Community Foreplay

Mi Amor

Just Thinking

The Duality of Love

The Shred

Courting

Four Letter Word

Empty

The Past

Misapprehension

WEB OF DECEPTION

Religious Controversy

Demonstrate My Sista!

The End

Please Let Me In!

Life

Revelation

SPEAKING TO MY PEOPLES

Checking You Brothers!

Contradiction—The Slave Conspire

Microphone Ck

The Stat Factor

Invest To Gain

Turn Me Up!

The Dopest

Midnight Blue

My Mind

I Watched the News

The Ballet

Inquiring Minds…

Generations

Sucker!

The Dream Ticket

No Solution

Dog Fights

Listen

Running But Standing still

To My Cyber Friends

METAMORPHOSIS WITH IN

Terminated Empire

A Piece Of Me

Terrie Said!

Change

Faces

Murder 1

Mind Daze

Observations of Me

I Crowned My Damn Self!

RADICAL THOUGHTS

The Grid

Probable cause

To attempt to change the laws

Unjust sentencing

Murder the most heinous crime

Judges take bribes

134 years for armed robbery

23 years for 2nd degree murder

Souls stuck in purgatory

What’s more gory?

Death toll in Indonesia

Car’s brother’s murders’

Unsolved mysteries

Closed cases

Presidential Debating

Gay’s liberating

Tourist trips to space

Just smacked you in the face

A robot dancing on mars

Sending back data

People just chatter, no stand up action

Why?

Like T.I. said watch what you say

Might just get locked away

Political prisoner Assasta Shakur

Do your research, racism overt

Don’t be fooled by the Presidential selection

Like condoms, use protection

Vote in all areas, not just the presidency

Then we can claim head of household

Like on tax forms

To a small extent we win

Until Electoral College factors in

Back to the begin

Un-just.

Damn It!

You Damn Right I’m a Radical!

Philosophical,