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    Summer Jungle
    Summer Jungle
    Summer Jungle
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    Summer Jungle

    By Frank Brandao

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    My words have meaning. You will be seeing a different way to play. Lifes a game to win, to enjoy once again!

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781543431841
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      Book preview

      Summer Jungle - Frank Brandao

      Copyright © 2017 by Frank Brandao.

      ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-5434-3183-4

                      eBook          978-1-5434-3184-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 06/20/2017

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      CONTENTS

      TALK

      COP

      NINETIES

      SHOWER

      MARY

      ILL

      CITY

      CREW

      MUSIC

      RIOT

      INSECT

      BABY BLUE

      WINDSOR

      SEMON

      MARCUS

      SEAGULLS

      STARS

      TRASH

      SIGNED

      DREAMING

      UP NORTH

      SUNDAY

      BEACH

      INFO

      FLOOD

      SLEEP

      ROAD

      STUFF

      COURT

      RACE

      GAMBLE

      CHARLIE

      BOUNCE

      JAIL TIME

      BLOOD AND WATER

      REPEAT

      SCREAMING

      MUZZLED

      SHUT UP

      TORONTO

      NIGHT LIGHT

      TREATS

      SKULL

      SHARMA

      PAWN

      MOIST

      CENTS

      MOUNTAINS

      These are rhymes when crime was a way to stay alright until that fight changed that night to fright. There is no death, just respect for the rest who confessed this bloody mess!!! LUV FB

      TALK

      O n the sidewalk

      I learned to talk

      I was in shock

      when I found out

      what they brought

      sleeping with demons

      is what Hell is bringing

      turning around

      to my town

      what shall I do?

      When I’m found

      they say

      It’s Him

      the poet

      my clothes they

      threw it

      in the garbage

      after his life

      was salvaged

      I was in a rage that morning

      How could this be

      as I lived

      I

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