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	ACT, ACT 2, ACT 3                                        #1 Life  ain’t   nothing but an act,  don’t step  back,  might                          catch you too relaxed,                                          #2. Listen up!   We’re  just  a  little young  trying to have fun, don’t know any better  until  act  2  give us a growing up letter,                                         #3. Life ain’t nothing but an act,  don’t step back,  theater is life             without pulling a knife,  expressions without depression,  creating is theating ,                                         #4. Thoughts,  words,  even touch the souls of  flying birds,  act 1,       act 2, act 3,  our lives blossom like an old oak tree,                                                                  #1  Life  ain’t nothing but an act  with different scenes,  lights up, black out,  lights up with colorful beams,                                          #2.                                                                    So where are we?  Act 1,  praying that act 2 will be all right through the rough nights of scenes and screams,                                                                  EVERYBODY But we know that there is a diamond in the sky that watches over us with an opened  eye,  and that ain’t no lie!  Life ain’t nothing but an act,  and that’s a natural fact!  HELLO!  How you like that jello!   Peace!  We  out!                                Classroom!                                     #1  Listen to the sound,  of the children feet,  Listen to the sound of the magical beat,  against the dark brown desks before they  sit for the writing test,                                     #2. Hip-Hop beats ringing in the room,  like a loud sweep of an old broom, creating a  mellow  tune before noon,                                     #3. The teacher enters and they drop fast to their seats and no one show their teeth, as silence invades the class like still water in a glass,                                      #4. "Writing time,"  the teacher blasts  as the children gather their pencils and tablets real fast.                                     EVERYBODY The Teacher smiles,  "Today is the day that I'm going to have my way,  and I want to see how much icing you going to put on this cake."   Now  shake and bake!   Hello!  This is not a joy ride             on the lake!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Basketball!                                      #1 Basketball, a game I like to play, listen to the nets, listen to the nets,  three points, two points, somebody got faked out of joint,                                      #2 basketball, a game I like to play, everyday, all day, dribble to the right, dribble to the left,  pass them up like they're deaf,                                      #3 watch me glide from side to side, basketball, a game I like to play,  summer, spring, winter, and fall, shake and bake like cookies and cake,                                      #4 basketball, a game I like to play, chillin with my boys just for joy,  I'm good and fast, check me out,  you just might shout, my cross over dribble  will make you cripple,                             EVERYBODY basketball, a game I like to play, shake and bake like cookies and cake!   Hello!  We out!                              HALFBACK                       Football is my game!  It's rough, tough and  nobody gets bluffed!  My name is T-Game and I wear twenty one!  I'm a halfback that's fast and swift as snow running down a cliff before anybody can sniff!  When I return punts, fake to the left, the other team grunts!  The running game is my  strength and I never sits on the bench!  Up and down the field, my blockers are my sheild!  It's no big deal because this game is real!  Yeah! Football is my game! Wham! Bam! Slam! It's rough, tough and nobody gets bluffed!  Hello! That's Football Poetry Jam!  I'm gone!                                   more poetry jam!