Eat the Peg by:Tilla Sonrise

when you live in the ghetto you still laugh you still cry you still run and play somehow you might get some skates you might even get used to playing eat the peg it's a ghetto game and yes you still have to go to school and you still have to get good grades we went to church alot so you learn a lot about God and in the ghetto faith is your greatest currency especially when the lights get cut off and you have to wash up at the sink in cold water. Baking Soda is the deodorant and the toothpaste. Sometimes you don't have covers so you sleep under all your clothes while sleeping in your clothes. Buy even in those conditions you learn how to love each other and everyone. Yrah it's easy to love when you are poor but many don't know that like they don't know about syrup sandwiches and sugar water. When this becomes your everyday you remember what grandma or big mama said my daddy told me he said

"Son what ever you be. Be the best!"

Sometimes we make it out

Sometimes we leave but end up right back. The dad thing is a lot of us die there. It's not that we aren't talented or smart or not gifted. We are policed like Runaway slaves. You know in the hood they plant drugs there and even bring guns and just leave them so we could get them. They put cameras in the light post to watch you try to survive. Then they round you up in the paddy wagon and take young boys to youth detention centers and boot camps.

A lot of them are now adults in private owned prisons becoming slaves again. It's like the ghetto is a extension of the plantation and it all came from Willie lynching. It's really a scientific test they've done on rats. So if you've never lived that life Don't look down on those who has it is not easy to live in a world where everyone hates you because of the color of your skin. Tilla Sonrise peace