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November 2009 Archive

November 23, 2009

Wishing for a Horrible Thanksgiving

My childhood Thanksgivings began enjoyably and always ended horribly. [more]

November 20, 2009

15 years ago...I make the headlines

IN "RAIDING PARTY," POLICE SWEEP CATHEDRAL
Boston; November, 1994

In a collaborative effort, police officers from several law enforcement agencies swept through the Cathedral Housing Development Tuesday, arresting about a dozen suspects believed to be involved in drug trafficking and other illegal activities. [more]

November 17, 2009

Hustling

Shizz had a customer. He spit a crack rock into his hand.
I sat nearby, in the playground.

A police cruiser stopped.
I wanted to walk away.
I had crack rocks in my mouth, underneath my tongue. [more]

November 16, 2009

Tanisha Messes with God and Me

She yelled, "Bitch!" just before something slammed into my head, glass shattered all over me, and I hit the ground.

At the time God was new to me. I’d known of Him before but this time was different. This was new. I was new. [more]

November 10, 2009

The stash

I snuck into my bedroom.

I made sure my sisters weren’t around.

I took the picture off the wall.

I packed away my crack behind a poster framed picture of me rapping. [more]

November 9, 2009

A letter from my attorney

May 19, 1995

Dear Talia,

I was happy to receive your letter and hope that everything is going well for you. I’m sorry that it took a little while to write back to you, but my schedule has been as busy as ever. You seem to be adjusting OK and to be trying to make good use of your time at South Bay. [more]

November 4, 2009

Life on the unit

My cellmate, Michelle, was one of my uncle’s hoes.
He was a pimp.
She would say, "I love your uncle. But he ain’t got no stroke." [more]

November 3, 2009

"What do we do?"

Suddenly, Porshai began to cry.

Danny and I slept on a mattress in the middle of his uncle’s living room floor, with Porshai, only a few months old, lying between us. [more]