northfifthstreet poem #16

people drive their kids to school these days even when they live nearby guess they feel they have to streets are too risky too dangerous cars line up before my house it’s next to the schoolyard the pounding bass of their music shakes the pavement a rapper heard down the block shouts pimp the bitch pimp the bitch pimp the bitch as kids climb from opened doors their schoolbags on their backs

© 2011 Jacqueline Jackson