The New York Nexus Cafe 

Early in the morning late at night two Newark boys woke up to fight, one was blind the other couldn't see they used their mummy as a referie.

Hand and hand they fought each other back to back they face each other, two deaf cops heard the noise ran upstairs and shot the two dead boys.

okey dokey -I guess this one didn't go over well

Who is this written by?

I liked it. It was kind of funny but in the end made some kind of social comment on today's culture. Then again, maybe I'm looking too much into it?

Alexander,

Yes, I think you are delving just a little deep, it's a simple childrens poem that we used to say on the streets of Newark when I was a little girl.

It was penned in approx. 1969 under the bridge at the North Ward station by the great Italian author Vinny Sausage Pizzahead Salducci the III.

Not necessarily. "Ring Around the Rosy" is an innocent-sounding children's poem too...

I was only joking about the "Vinny Sausage Pizzahead" thing
(hehehe) at that moment it was funny but seriously - I'm not sure on it's (the Poems)origins. I was a little girl at the time and all I can remember were the Teamsters teaching it to us (my Dad included) all of them in the North Ward of Newark knew the Poems.

I had heard that this poem traveled from an area in Brooklyn into Staten Island and wound up becoming very popular in the late 1960's down North Newark (appox.1969-the last time "Jets" won a Super Bowl). Our parents actually thought it to us all the kids born in the 1970's and early 1980's had heard these poems at one time or another. It had an important meaning just after the "Newark Riots" and there were stories that went along with it about a guy named "Johnny". I have no clue who "Johhny" was but the stories that accompanied the "Newark Poem" had an odd way about them and Johnny's stories were also versed in simplistic poems with haunting undertones. All of us kids had nightmares about them.

Even the Police knew the words of the stories & poems and they were taken very seriously by the Newark, Bellville, etc, (surrounding area's) Police but the Police didn't want to stop the poems they wanted us to learn them and they even thought their own children.