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Tiger Prince of Knoxville

by Adeem the Artist

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I was born in a weigles in the middle of the store While daddy pumped gas, momma pumped more She squeezed me out in the middle of the floor And I did a little dance for the overnight cashier She said, “good morning-oh Lordy there’s an awful lot of fluid in here” So I looked down the aisle and I looked at my mother Grabbed a little jar of creamy peanut butter I scooped it out with my tiny, wet hands Balanced on a tour of Pringles cans to reach the shelf by myself I was 32 seconds old I was born in a Weigles off Western Avenue I had a nibble of some brittle in the gas hospital But I knew it’ll be a little better to chew And I was slamming milk Silk and sweeter than my momma built I was swaddled in a corndog quilt Underneath a W moon Well, the years went by and I got a little higher Plus my height grew too ;) and I never got tired I was cleaner than the sheen of an Icee machine Producing more power than gasoline A tiny little bean on a trampoline: I was a pre-teen Adeem And we were married in a Weigles but we skipped champagne Had a fountain of milk cos we couldn’t abstain Bought a little land near the mountain range And put a little a cabin out in Strawberry Plains Found ourselves a Weigles parking lot, Made a little spark ’til the car got hot, Let it erupt and sure enough, we do the whole thing over again I was born in a Weigles off Western Avenue I had a nibble of some brittle in the gas hospital But I knew it’ll be a little better to chew And when the time came? I chewed it ’til I give myself a migraine I didn’t stutter- I LOVE peanut butter And another thing- well, I don’t have another thing to say
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Well times was tough and I got up to settle into some self-care I had $1,200 in a government check and a small plot of land to spare Built a strong fence out of twigs and sticks, I was nestled in a castle in the air Did some surfing on the internet, found me some tigers for to live in there Now I’m the Tiger Prince of Knoxville Hillbilly royalty I mighta been born in a Weigels Now I’m nobility I might not look like much to you But I’m high on Vitamin T I’m the Tiger Prince of Knoxville, Tennessee Well he was warm and soft, we started off better than I thought we could I got fancy feast from the food pantry He got bigger than I thought he would And the fence I built wasn’t hard to jilt For a tiger with a liberated mind Now he’s wandered off and I ain’t gone soft- I'm gonna find him tonight I heard they’ve spied my little friend They even set a trap for him How’d they know he loves rotisserie? I’ve saddled up his sister now She was my favorite anyhow We'll find him 'fore the Sheriff's Deputies I am the Tiger Prince of Knoxville, Tennessee

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released September 14, 2020

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Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.

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