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Title: Basketball Diaries
Author: Charlie
Date Submitted: 5/8/2010

 
Poem: Watching Leonardo playing in the Basketball Diaries
About someone’s misspent living dead junkie days
The credits at movies end
Triggered a song from my toll booth nights
The line came to me through the haze
Googled “Fell from the roof of east 29”
Jim Carroll, the song,
“People who died, who died“ …1980
Sometimes in the bipolar mind
One + One = Two
DiCaprio as Jim Carroll
And a Jim Carroll song
Yeah, me and Teddy sniffing glue at 12 years old
So this is for the people
Those people who survived, who survived...