The Meat...

Preamble: This is a story of me stopping to talk to a young man on the train, about youth knife crime and youth gun crime that is currently on the streets. The following is what I said at The Meat:

I said, my name is Alph Arley

I know that you’re certainly pleased to meat me,

Because, I know I’m certainly pleased to meat you

He had his, face straight, straight faced

I said that now hold on Young’un

Let’s get one thing straight, I am not trying to speak to you, to beef you,

I thought to myself, I am not trying to speak to you, to beef you?

As I was thinking, there was fire in his eyes, that probably caused his thoughts to fry

He was probably thinking like who is this guy?

 Like, I thought to myself, like Alph look what you gone and did,

What you gone and did? I meant to say, what you gone and done

 I thought to myself, like Alph well done,

Well done, because before you begun, He wants you to go stuff yourself,

He wants you to sow yourself up, he wants you strung and hung

I said now hold on Young’un, ease yourself in your chair and open your ears,

I steadied my tonsils and prepared, while I readied my nostrils and flared, as I asked 

as I asked, why do I smell bad blood in the air?

 I said, let’s make one thing extremely clear, to find me in beef is extremely, rare

I said, what I’m saying is, Young’un

 How I’m going cook my words up, is how your minds going to eat it

All I’m trying to be is a medium to you, to mediate with you

But, this right here, let’s make it clear, 
what I have said already, is me going medium with you

I said, now Young’un before you say some’un, let me turn up the heat,

 My apologies, if my words cut deep, but please, before you speak listen to me speak

I said, listen up Young’un, I see the youths on the streets

On the streets, there packing their heat, there upping the degrees to their beef

To their beef, the youths are using and abusing knives in public view

In public view, to cut through, meat to bone and more bone to meat

It seems to me, that it is a whole heap, of bones and meat, their cutting through

 Like Young’un, let me tell you some’un

 I see that the youths, with their beef, they try to chew

They try to chew, but the beef they struggle to get through

It's true, the youths chew, chew then they chew off more than they can chew, it's true

It’s true, that nowadays youths are using knives, with their lives and prides at stake

Talking about, peppering and corning each other whilst putting knives in a public place

Public place? I meant to say, whilst putting knives in a public plate

  As medics make way, to put youths in bags, to take away

I said, now before you say some’un Young’un, like I know that every youth nowadays

Nowadays, is entitled to make mistakes

I admit, I have made many mistakes myself in my days

But Young’un all i’m trying to say, is,

Treating yourself and each other, as pieces of meat, is surely not the only way