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    Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me
    Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me
    Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me
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    Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me

    By Brad Bathgate and Brad BLUE Bathgate

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    "Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me," is a book of poems,  Haikus,  jokes and random thoughts that has captured Harlem living completely and not once did the author loose street creditability. The author (BLUE) has taken the ugliness of the ghetto and brought humor and beauty to the everyday experiences on the streets. There is a new movement that needs to be acknowledged and his poetry is a big part of that...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrad Bathgate
    Release dateSep 4, 2013
    ISBN9780971258143
    Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me
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    Brad Bathgate

    BLUE aka Brad Bathgate was born in Harlem, but raised as a military brat between New York, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Germany. Upon returning to the states from Germany as a teenager, he experienced culture shock and quickly developed a discerning eye, which lends to his writing today. Growing up during the early stages of Hip Hop, he has always been fascinated with words. However, it wasn’t until 1998, when he attended a poetry reading at the Sugar Shack, in Harlem when he found his calling and began to take writing seriously. After experiencing the other poet’s manipulation of words, Blue realized that writing was what he wanted to do, concluding there was no limit to what he could say or write, provided it was creative.

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      Book preview

      Don't Beat Your Children Or They'll Turn Out Like Me - Brad Bathgate

      Don’t Beat Your

      Children

      Or

      They’ll Turn Out

      Like Me...

      Poems, Haikus, jokes, Status updates & Random thoughts

      By

      Brad BLUE Bathgate

      Brad Bathgate

      Copyrights ©2007 Derrick -BLUE- Wilson

      Library Of Congress Catalog Number

      TX0007378306

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published by The Great Persuader Publishing

      Facebook.com/Bradbathgate

      myspace.com/bradbathgate

      Twitter.com/bradbathgate

      This book is a work of fiction. names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual person, living or dead, events, or local is entirely coincidental.

      Cover design and layout by Derrick Wilson Printed In the United States of America

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      You only live once

      Therefore everything that you do should be

      considered a big deal...

      Don Turner *

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      To ‘Try’ means to fail with effort

      So I would like everybody to try and take that word out of your vocabulary...

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      People are always trying to put their brain into my head so I can think like they do...

      The Pastor, The Pimp and the Politicians do the same thing but they use Charisma

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      The second you start worrying about what other people think of you, then that means that you are putting their agenda before your agenda...

      And that goes against the law of nature

      because you come first...

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      Directions For Dummies

      Has anyone ever asked you for directions

      and when you give them precise information, you’ll watch them walk off and do the exact opposite of what you just told them

      wtf is that about?

      My new book should be entitled, How to follow directions for dummies.

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      ~

      The morning paper claims that Tiger is a Lion Cheetah

      And pretty soon all he’ll be able to chase are Cougars...

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