...still...

and still the youth must learn

the fatal yet useless blade of ego
severs homes
under siege

no fathers in a random 25

so many go home to click www.nofoodnoindoororoutdoortoiletmotherhavingsexinfrontofherchildren-inatoosmallhutthatshouseseight.com
and the gully is stink with hits
all night.

and still the youth must learn.

through apartments heated with penetrative music
high rise models of tivoli design

the youth sits silently in his bedroom being told to fuck her twice a day, to make her pussy pay,
to get his big long gun and run out pon dem, extra load clip and dun out pon dem
war dem all night till sun out pon dem
gangstas guerillas come out.

then in completion and commeration of the epic audio battle
he returns to school monday morning with nothing in his stomach
but the rawness of an early morning gunpoint encounter with an underaged girl in an abandoned house
a perfect combination of fucking her twice a day and running out with his big long gun.


and still the youth must learn

that road signs carry words that only the readers see
while schools are now rivers that no longer reach the ocean.

for the stagnant education pool,
still...
fat with larvae,
waiting to burst with a swarm of Anopheles armed with AK-47's.

and still the youth must learn

that it makes sense to make mistakes

and that it makes a man to try again.