Trying to Make A Dollar Out Of 15 cents

16 year old girl walks down the block everyday six o’clock in the mornin’ to 4 o’clock at night. Strippin in the day. Hoe’n at night. Everyday she meets a friend who will do favors because she can’t eat. Starvation. This is the height and weight of the 16 year old with three babies by three different daddies. One of the daddies is her cousin, but never in her life will she tell the truth. She would rather walk the streets and fantasize about the “real” life she wishes to have. She would rather make five dollars from her grandfather look-a-like to buy her and her babies a Mcdouble from McDonalds, than go in the house and give her father favors for a piece of bread and bologna. Its hard out there for a girl who knows nothing but sex, money, rape and lies all her life. Education. What education, she hasn’t heard that word since she found her mother laid out on the floor from a drug overdose. That was eight years ago. Sentence. What sentence she hasn’t wrote a sentence since kindergarten. Life is hard.

Be grateful for what you have because what if you were her.

15 year old boy on the street corner hustling to feed his five younger brothers who are 1,2,3,4,5. they all live with him and his baby mama who has 4 kids and only one is his and that’s skeptical. He keeps her because she gets support from the gov’t but that aint enough. 11 people in a two bedroom project house and only one is nickel and dimin just to get by. Has nothing going and the feds are watching his back. Cant seem to break even so movin real weight is out of the question and the niggas he thought was his friends stuck him up last night when the rent was due. Eviction notice on the way and the boys need braces, clothes, food. Baby mama is a ghetto no-class bitch and is one word away from the floor. Naggin day in and day out. Life is hard. Damn, why didn’t I stay in school, he thinks. He couldn’t even though he excelled. Unlike the girl who was raped and couldn’t go he went up to the 8th grade when he failed three times due to absences. Why go to school when it doesn’t pay the rent. Teach me whatever he says to the OG on the block, hustling. Scratchin and saving to get out and then gets bagged, had to do a two year bid. Brothers lost in the system, baby mama knocked up by another nigga, he doesn’t have nothing. Life is hard.