Name: Gangsta As
Duration: P00H02M13S
Description: A guide to New Zealand's criminal ecosystem.

Gangsta As

from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems by Michael Botur

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A guide to New Zealand's criminal ecosystem.

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Gangsta As

Gangsta as Sky City’s high rolling clan lab Chinese
Gangsta as Pare Block D. Gangsta as the Sindi.
Gangsta as the Blenheim iwi versus biker beef

Gangsta as Celtics singlets bandaging bleeding Bloods
And Cannon’s Creek craniums cracked on kerbs by thugs
Gangsta as a Nelson league team givin’ gooks the bum’s rush

Gangsta as sandpaper scalps and swastika-stickered skin
Gangsta as the hoodrats Becroft was too soft to discipline,
and that nerd’s arm snappin, and the Harris Gang cousin chucklin.

Gangsta as the Hudsons, the Duffys, the Browns
Gangsta as the Fourth Reich guy with Die Nigger Die tatted on his brow
Gangsta as the Police Gang on the prowl.

Gangsta as the freedom to associate. Gangsta as Devast8.
Gangsta as the Killer Clown Fiends’ prison Ritalin trade
Gangsta as solitary Gs catching up on their lost NCEA

Gangsta as that black and spewing BOP pollutant: the Filthy Few
Gangsta as the Nomads, Horowhenua’s rotten tooth
Gangsta as Mossie’s tangi, the thousand-long lunchline queue.

Gangsta as a dozen Road Knights beside you
at the Timaru traffic lights.
Gangsta as the Snitches Get Stitches patches Angels let you buy online
Gangsta as the Tribesmen, stubborn on their Jap bikes

Gangsta as Junior Warriors getting jumped on the Viaduct
Gangsta as the Wairoa Mob’s scrum for top dog
Gangsta as shot mobsters refusing to see a doctor.

Gangsta as staunching out a teacher.
Gangsta as havin a different dad every month
And every afternoon, if she wakes up, you get a few crumbs of mum.

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from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems, released March 7, 2021

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Michael Botur Whangarei, New Zealand

Michael Botur is a New Zealand poet and fiction writer of European heritage. He is author of ten books and has won a bunch of bigshot writing awards.
'Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems' collects 15 years of spoken word verse from one of NZ's most dynamic young poets. Perfect for anyone who loves the personal mixed w the political, a little bit of hip hop and plenty of attitude.
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