<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 18px;">“My Own Two Feet” by Abu Malik</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Crank it up and read along . . .</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/My_Own_Two_Feet.mp3</a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My pockets are empty as they are too often</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The crease in these old jeans is too hard to soften.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So, people see me coming from miles away</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And they poke their friends with a jab and say.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Hey, look at him. </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ain’t</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> he strange?</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Look at that. Thin as a page.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Where does he live? Do you know?</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">No. Wait. Stop. Be quiet ‘till he goes.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Is he gone now? Yeah. But his steps are slow.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I guess there’s no hurry to get home to the rats and the crows.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Or the dusty floorboard that he calls a bed.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Yeah, but he’s got all the room in the world to rest his head.”</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">That’s true. I do. And I sleep to dream.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The unconscious mind is more real than it seems.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In here my hope is real.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And I don’t worry about those who kill or steal.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So, I’m comfortable here on my own two feet.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Later tonight God and I will finally meet.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And the world will be quiet except for the cheers;</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Nations of people without pain or fear.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A world full of hope and eyes open wide</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Where hatred and bigotry can no longer hide.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And hands of every color take hold of each other</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And every woman is respected as a sister or a mother.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So, I’m closing my eyes to finally see</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A brand new world where every human being is free.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">And the only thing I’ll need when I walk down the street</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Are my two empty pockets and my own two feet.</span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. 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