by Leonardo Antonio Reyes
Second place, Poetry, Heard/Arlington County Detention Facility/OAR writing contest, August 2021
It’s crazy the type of stuff you see on
My block
Kids barely 13 selling bags of that rock
Violence out of control, younger and younger,
bodies drop
Its crazy the stuff that you see
on my block
Young women corrupted selling they soul
For what they think is a lot
People glorifying the streets thinking its
something its not
Let me tell you right now
selling dope ain’t the only way to get to
the top
But we so messed up we think its
all that we got
No role models so we looked up to
that knot
We played games with our lives, our
fun was ducking cops
Slowly but surely our lives go down the
drain
Start getting locked up, start going insane
But this could be a blessing long as you
maintain
Stay off them drugs, start stimulating
your brain
Start realizing there’s another way out
Got that legal money, don’t have to
Worry ‘bout a drought
Do right by your family and right by
your kids
Show ‘em its more to life than
Selling drugs and doing bids
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