smooth as A POEM BY Paul Run Kung Law
Beatty
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S m o o t h as... a baby
Nicholas brother
tap dancin
in a porcelain tub mr bubble suds aye que lindo palms filled with cocoa .
butter lotion
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smooth as...
Michael J o r d a n fifth airborne
in the middle of his frame pump fake a funky millionaire marionette
freeze
pissin on p h y s i c his glossy fresh out the pacific sea lion brown skin limbs draped in 8th century
s
h e i a n k i m o n o silk.
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s
mooth a s . . .
sarah Vaughan
holdin a note dipped in bronze
spit shined with
a lonely bootblacks jukebox drool buffed with chamois cloth and heartache.
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sm oo t h
as ...
tap Beer after
midnight mass.
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S
m
o
o
t
h
as...
Wilma Rudolph haulin ass through Rome long Tennessee tigerbelle strides walking down gossamer winged myths busted shakles in her wake
1960
RU N A W A
Y.
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Smooth as...
Jazz
An Eric Dolphy workshopped Alto free swingin lead that lets mingus know where he can shove that bow if he dont ease up pluckin pizzicato over his
Solo.
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Smooth as...
Billy dee
Williams.
nevermind
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Smooth a s . . .
Lady KUNG FU
Flyin roof to roof dealing five finer Drunken Monkey style Tiger Fisted De ath to the imperialist aggressors.
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S m o o t h as. . .
first Latin Black Korean
NATIONAL HOCKE Y LEAGUE superstar center
i
c
e
offensive
corssovers
ONE HAND ON THE STICK BLUE LINE BREAKAWAY Blastin a drive high and tight Stick side
red light and siren.
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smooth as...
Granddads 30 year old sunday
one a month white patent leather s h o e s
ones he wears with his lucky powder
blue slacks when he takes you to the TRACK Santa Anita
Belmont
Yonkers
two disability dollars a race AND TELLS YOU TO BET THE T R I F E C TA gives you
horses
on the with the names you like.
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Smooth as...
a cab calloway Blip BLAP
BIG band stikkle tat riff Rolling over his process from Front
to ba c k
SLIDING on its kneesdown the greased part
of a Geechee Ghetto Trickster in f u l l r e g a l i a .
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smooth as f
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smooth as fu
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smooth as fuc
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smooth as fuck