I was born on this
I survived in the streets my whole life
was a gamble so we threw bones on the
streets no not at home so we found love
in the streets love my brothers who had
the same struggle in these streets I
think my pop was a creep because he
crept away leaving a young boy in the
hood to find his way but no map no
compass I could have found my way
there’s a dog but I don’t care to see
the light of day I want blood money I’m
like a vampire on this block I’m dodging
bullets
everyday is rapid fire on this block but
I don’t care if I get shot for like
shooting myself you see I used to flirt
with death until I started fooling
myself got to max on the Shelf and in
abundance too wealthy no cash it’s like
vitamins in the hood it betters your
health now I’m deep in these streets I
got a crew with me we all stick in these
streets man they got the flu Whitney
look death in the eyes and actually what
do you want with me you could take me or
leave me I never feel welcome first me
but that was just the blood see most
kind of heart when they wasted that’s
why they drink 151 with a cranberry to
chase it never could face life in a
sober state of mind so we drink liquor
smoke we until we’re out of our minds do
a bunk down the street driving you out
of your mind commit a crime so heinous
you think we out of our minds like only
click track for back blowing you out of
your mind
16,000 murders in America America is out
of their minds for they make laws and
new jails the lock is out of our mind
because most don’t see it until they run
out of time like Stanley Tookie Williams
25 years can find no mercy over
addiction
couldn’t save him combine it you’re
looking gang war to mentor tell gates to
heaven doors street talk with metaphors
poetry is when it’s meant to war so imma
spit it until I hear my last breath this
is my birth my life my freedom my death
I was raised in the city of Philadelphia
the City of Brotherly Love but in some
places there was no love at all I lived
in a single-parent household mother four
sisters as a kid I watched my mother
struggle to take care of five children
on her own and me being the only boy I
always wanted to do something to help
her
watching her work job to job to keep
food on the table and the heating and
let you go on then seeing her going
through bad relationships as a young kid
I wish I could call my father to help
out but I had no contact number for him
as I grew older the age of 13 one day I
was sitting in my room I heard my mother
and her boyfriend getting into argument
and the voices was raised so grabbed my
attention I look towards her room and I
heard like a slap and I got up but I ran
into her room I sent them to fighting I
jumped on the man’s back inside punching
up my mother get up my mother jump my
mother took me to the ground
Oh looked at me say you think you’re a
man now you think you’re a man I said
yeah I’m a man said come on outside
there I’ll show you what a man is so all
right when grab my sneakers tie my shoes
up my mom said don’t go out there boy
don’t go out there I don’t want him to
hurt you I said mom I gotta go it’s time
my shoes up I went outside to the front
door he grabbed me by my chest then
against the wall 4038 Dillinger that he
always carried pointing to 12 inches
away from my face I said don’t you ever
jump into a fight with me and your
mother again I stared at him
I stared down the barrel that gun I
didn’t jump
I didn’t flinch I didn’t move his mouth
was moving what kind of hair where do
you see it I blacked out all I could
hear was that inner voice telling me he
gonna pull the gun out on the kid he’s a
chump kill him when you get over there I
said yeah I’m gonna kill him when I get
over but an inner voice we all had
sometimes that tell us negative things
we’re Spinelli negative thoughts and I
hate it
I listen to that voice I kept standing
myself killing when I get over there he
let me go he went on the corner I won’t
talk upstairs ask my mother what she
okay said yeah sure did he hurt you
I said no she said you okay I see I’m
okay but I really wasn’t okay that day I
was fearless
that day I was no longer afraid of the
dark
that day I was no longer afraid of the
streets that day I was no longer afraid
to die I grew up I hung out with other
young teens like myself who had the same
problems and the same dilemmas well
lived in single-parent homes with their
mothers or with the grandmothers because
their mothers was going drugs but they
father was in jail doing life we were
all trying to make away I was trying to
find a way in the hood we had no role
models the streets mentored us and the
street said get the money the street
said get the hustle the street says
shoot dice to make money the street said
robbed a store or robbed a person
walking down the street that’s how you
become successful that’s how those guys
on the corner got those cars and his
girls from selling drugs so get some
drugs start hustling your G make some
money
we believe the streets
so we start making money we saw hustling
selling drugs and start working for us
so I’m feeling good about ourselves
making money hand over fist hand over
fist so much money that we talk buying
our own stuff my own clothes our own
sneakers my own shoes you get our own
haircuts of course I had to hide it for
my mother because she’s gonna ask him
back into his sneaks from I work at
those clothes from because she knows he
didn’t buy them so I was real slick I
was real quiet dude I always watched
everything that I did but the streets
got so heavy that we start spiraling out
of control and we start spiraling out of
control you really can’t stop yourself
but the world moves real fast and you
caught up in it we became a product of
our environment and pretty soon we
started buying guns and walking around
with weapons because people started to
notice us girls start to notice us if we
looking fly they’ve been nice but the
dudes thought the notice is too they
started getting jealous then one of the
saddest days happen and they were
wheezing a club party and having fun
hanging out a guy runs into the club say
yo man your man just got shot
whoo rah rah just got shot but we yeah
19 Street will be all jump in the car
three cars deep driving real fast when
the stop signs and red lights going 60
miles per hour in the city streets we
just thought he was shot rolled up to
the scene I seen a cop car out there I
seen his car crashed into the Chinese
store my friends jump out I said go
check him check on rock I go park the
car I get up the car stop walking around
the corner and they’re walking back it
tears in the eyes
what’s wrong what happened they did what
he did
No and II don’t believe it so walking
towards the car
and walking towards the car a cop was
standing right there
as I get closer to the car reality
starts to set in I must be believing it
I get you – from the window and the
driver’s seat I look in I see nothing
but blackness
I don’t even see him in the car I
blacked out again second time to happen
I was so angry frustrated I just wanted
to get the person who did it so two days
later we had the funeral after the
funeral I sat down with my friends I had
a moment of clarity I said what do I
think I’m gonna be in five years my
friend said I don’t know why the French
say probably in jail what do you think
will I said yeah probably in jail or did
either one we had low expectations of
life and her life was living we knew
that it could come to an end real fast
and we accepted
as time went on we got back into the
streets in the hustle again and we got
two more altercations and fights we got
into a shootout with another group of
guys I pulled my gun out I killed the
man 18 years old I was arrested sent to
jail charged with murder in the first
degree attempted murder on the witness
aggravator saw conspiracy and some
possession of an instrument of a crime
it was seeking the death penalty I was
sent to the worst prison in Pennsylvania
Holmes burg prison and when you walk
through the big doors 50-foot wall the
MA scream welcome to the terrordome
because that’s what it was
the terrordome row violent world while
real crazy nothing but murderers rapists
distortion this kidnappers in this
prison not sit right in
I keep my product at everybody I start
getting the face participating in the
riots it wasn’t slowing down the thing
was that I would call home eventually
talk to my mother because the prison was
always on the news and she was already
worried about her little boy the same
boy she remember me as I was five or six
years old not knowing how much I changed
oh how much the streets had changed me
so one day I call home and check on my
girlfriend because my girlfriend was two
weeks pregnant when I got locked up this
time go on months go by later later I’m
still participating in little activities
in the jail I’ll call home again
my sister answered the phone he said
congratulations I said what she had the
baby she said here congratulations I
said what we got what we had you said
you had the baby boy I said man break
him up him I got to see him bring him up
here I’m so excited I’m so happy
waiting for this day cuz I always wanted
the boy I can visit myself walking down
the street and welcome to the mall with
him when they’re coming for the visit I
went upstairs walked in the room my
sister hand me my son I grabbed him with
the big smile on my face looking at him
checking out his features making sure
his mind all right I said wow I got a
son holding a very proud moment in my
life I’m looking at him talking to him
thinking about myself thinking about him
thinking about his future the visit was
over real quick a half an hour so I go
back to my cell I sit down on my bed I
think I’m a father now what kind of
father I’m gonna be to my son if I’m in
jail and I knew I talked to my lawyer I
knew already that I would get some
daylight you were 20 to 40 years or 10
to 20 years in prison I was hoping for
the best but until then I knew I had a
job to do because I wanted to give my
son something that I never had a father
in the day
and I was sitting on my bed I’ll think
about how do I become this person this
teenager we didn’t care about nothing
was fearless
I took a self-evaluation test on my own
I thought about my life when I was
younger how I used to be as a kid then I
found the wise and my questions how did
I became that way I reflected back on my
life and a man putting a gun in my face
and other things that happened to me and
I forgave that man I forgave anybody who
heard me or my family then I wanted to
redeem myself I forgave myself for the
things I’ve done I knew that the only
way I could be successful and making
this transition because I wanted to
change my seeing the old men on the
block mopping the floors a 60 or 70
years old I was 19 I didn’t want that
for my life I was gonna ever get out of
jail I was never coming back I made a
vow I was convicted in my heart and it’s
not in the courtroom but in my heart and
I was never coming back to prison again
and I knew I had to keep myself to be a
good father because I dropped out of
school so I went back to school in
prison got my GED then I started reading
all kinds of books and magazines and
watching TV shows and listening to
speeches and movies and trying to take
anything from it I was going to teach
myself so I read the book one day and I
said well there’s a will there’s a way
I said wow that’s me I’m taking that so
in turn I ran to a difficulty or
challenge I said to myself with that the
world is away I might find a way to get
out of this and then I heard his speech
and the man stayed in the speech a man
who feels the plant as a man who plans
to fail I said wow that’s deep taking
this I’m start planning my life every
day on the jail sorry morning I wake up
out playing my day and I did a self
evaluation every year to see how much
I’ve grown with how much I’ve changed
then I watch the Bruce Willis movie and
Bruce Willis was acting all crazy and
the terrorists told Bruce Willis he said
you’re acting off the emotion it’s about
using a benefit here Internet I said wow
that’s heavy that was me
I was acting off the emotions on the
streets and not using them in it for my
intellect because I want any we talk
what was angry I was angry I want nobody
say anything to me I want you to talk me
out of anything I wanted to do but now I
learn how to use my intelligence instead
of my emotions that’s not getting better
at it in prison I turn the State
Penitentiary into my Penn State I made
it my college it’s not ready I studied
and I’ve read different books now that’s
picked up any good vibes from anything
or any good message from anything I
watched or seen I started growing as a
person and I started mentoring other
young inmates in prison before you know
it they was all listening to me and
following me and the wardens in the jail
wanted me to ask why some of the beefs
that’s going on in the prison but I was
able to talk to the young brothers to
cool him down as I grew older and then I
was faced with the reality of leaving
about 10 years was up I was afraid a
little bit because I’ve never been in
jail before and I’ve never been on
parole before I never been in this
situation so I said to myself with it’s
a will there’s a way
again we didn’t read that word I left
the mountains I looked back for one time
seen the prison saying never coming back
again I don’t know how but I’m never
coming back again so every day I just
plant my life I came home even though I
couldn’t get a job because I was a felon
convicted of a murder I knew I had
resources not from the city within me I
knew I was creative I knew I was a quick
learner I knew I had good qualities of
stuff but I had so I used that to help
navigate my way through life and I knew
the only thing that kept me straight is
my conviction my determination to change
for myself for my son and for all the
other young men and women in the
community who needed that direct
guidance it was caught up in the same
way about was caught up there I started
mentor and I started teaching I served
over 500,000 kids in from Philadelphia
to California Philadelphia to California
I probably serve over 2,000 adult men
and women speaking to them teaching them
helping them navigate their way through
life and travel the tribulation the
biggest problem that we have is that we
need redemption we need forgiveness in
order to reach peace in ourselves
because a lot of us war with ourselves
we don’t realize it so I start teaching
that method I want y’all to repeat that
to me what you think is what you say
what you say is what you do what you do
becomes habit what becomes habit becomes
your character and your character
determines your future we need change
I ain’t talking about pennies nickels
quarters dimes I’m talking about
changing hearts changing minds change
the name sound on these data lines
because I swear we have a problem here
neighborhood is full of fear when the
stands filled with empty chairs schools
unprepared so the best that we prepared
to work together as one with the police
commissioner tedxtalks in the mirror see
it’s a new day new year with new ideas
to share and talk about amongst us so we
can put the blindfold back over the eyes
of Lady Justice so she can’t see race
wealth or status I mean we living in
utter madness because the thoughts got
better apparatus in the police and I
ain’t got a search Iraq and Iran to find
weapons of mass destruction like a farm
right here and he’s American streets and
it gets deep if you stare down the walls
of City Hall long enough you might see
we on pen week because this was not what
the country was built for and the
Quakers didn’t build the first
Penitentiary to become a revolving door
then there’s more we need better
programs for ex-offenders to become
productive citizens they can’t get a job
at your job or his job they need to help
them create their own small businesses
this is what the business is creating
the safest cities by the communities and
by the town watching our communities so
we can first police ourselves reach
ourselves and teach ourselves that we
don’t have to live in vain or die in
shame because this this is all about
change so here’s the penny for your
thoughts a nickel for kiss a dime if you
tell us that you love this
America you have at least 16 cents to
spare thank you
you
you
I survived in the streets my whole life
was a gamble so we threw bones on the
streets no not at home so we found love
in the streets love my brothers who had
the same struggle in these streets I
think my pop was a creep because he
crept away leaving a young boy in the
hood to find his way but no map no
compass I could have found my way
there’s a dog but I don’t care to see
the light of day I want blood money I’m
like a vampire on this block I’m dodging
bullets
everyday is rapid fire on this block but
I don’t care if I get shot for like
shooting myself you see I used to flirt
with death until I started fooling
myself got to max on the Shelf and in
abundance too wealthy no cash it’s like
vitamins in the hood it betters your
health now I’m deep in these streets I
got a crew with me we all stick in these
streets man they got the flu Whitney
look death in the eyes and actually what
do you want with me you could take me or
leave me I never feel welcome first me
but that was just the blood see most
kind of heart when they wasted that’s
why they drink 151 with a cranberry to
chase it never could face life in a
sober state of mind so we drink liquor
smoke we until we’re out of our minds do
a bunk down the street driving you out
of your mind commit a crime so heinous
you think we out of our minds like only
click track for back blowing you out of
your mind
16,000 murders in America America is out
of their minds for they make laws and
new jails the lock is out of our mind
because most don’t see it until they run
out of time like Stanley Tookie Williams
25 years can find no mercy over
addiction
couldn’t save him combine it you’re
looking gang war to mentor tell gates to
heaven doors street talk with metaphors
poetry is when it’s meant to war so imma
spit it until I hear my last breath this
is my birth my life my freedom my death
I was raised in the city of Philadelphia
the City of Brotherly Love but in some
places there was no love at all I lived
in a single-parent household mother four
sisters as a kid I watched my mother
struggle to take care of five children
on her own and me being the only boy I
always wanted to do something to help
her
watching her work job to job to keep
food on the table and the heating and
let you go on then seeing her going
through bad relationships as a young kid
I wish I could call my father to help
out but I had no contact number for him
as I grew older the age of 13 one day I
was sitting in my room I heard my mother
and her boyfriend getting into argument
and the voices was raised so grabbed my
attention I look towards her room and I
heard like a slap and I got up but I ran
into her room I sent them to fighting I
jumped on the man’s back inside punching
up my mother get up my mother jump my
mother took me to the ground
Oh looked at me say you think you’re a
man now you think you’re a man I said
yeah I’m a man said come on outside
there I’ll show you what a man is so all
right when grab my sneakers tie my shoes
up my mom said don’t go out there boy
don’t go out there I don’t want him to
hurt you I said mom I gotta go it’s time
my shoes up I went outside to the front
door he grabbed me by my chest then
against the wall 4038 Dillinger that he
always carried pointing to 12 inches
away from my face I said don’t you ever
jump into a fight with me and your
mother again I stared at him
I stared down the barrel that gun I
didn’t jump
I didn’t flinch I didn’t move his mouth
was moving what kind of hair where do
you see it I blacked out all I could
hear was that inner voice telling me he
gonna pull the gun out on the kid he’s a
chump kill him when you get over there I
said yeah I’m gonna kill him when I get
over but an inner voice we all had
sometimes that tell us negative things
we’re Spinelli negative thoughts and I
hate it
I listen to that voice I kept standing
myself killing when I get over there he
let me go he went on the corner I won’t
talk upstairs ask my mother what she
okay said yeah sure did he hurt you
I said no she said you okay I see I’m
okay but I really wasn’t okay that day I
was fearless
that day I was no longer afraid of the
dark
that day I was no longer afraid of the
streets that day I was no longer afraid
to die I grew up I hung out with other
young teens like myself who had the same
problems and the same dilemmas well
lived in single-parent homes with their
mothers or with the grandmothers because
their mothers was going drugs but they
father was in jail doing life we were
all trying to make away I was trying to
find a way in the hood we had no role
models the streets mentored us and the
street said get the money the street
said get the hustle the street says
shoot dice to make money the street said
robbed a store or robbed a person
walking down the street that’s how you
become successful that’s how those guys
on the corner got those cars and his
girls from selling drugs so get some
drugs start hustling your G make some
money
we believe the streets
so we start making money we saw hustling
selling drugs and start working for us
so I’m feeling good about ourselves
making money hand over fist hand over
fist so much money that we talk buying
our own stuff my own clothes our own
sneakers my own shoes you get our own
haircuts of course I had to hide it for
my mother because she’s gonna ask him
back into his sneaks from I work at
those clothes from because she knows he
didn’t buy them so I was real slick I
was real quiet dude I always watched
everything that I did but the streets
got so heavy that we start spiraling out
of control and we start spiraling out of
control you really can’t stop yourself
but the world moves real fast and you
caught up in it we became a product of
our environment and pretty soon we
started buying guns and walking around
with weapons because people started to
notice us girls start to notice us if we
looking fly they’ve been nice but the
dudes thought the notice is too they
started getting jealous then one of the
saddest days happen and they were
wheezing a club party and having fun
hanging out a guy runs into the club say
yo man your man just got shot
whoo rah rah just got shot but we yeah
19 Street will be all jump in the car
three cars deep driving real fast when
the stop signs and red lights going 60
miles per hour in the city streets we
just thought he was shot rolled up to
the scene I seen a cop car out there I
seen his car crashed into the Chinese
store my friends jump out I said go
check him check on rock I go park the
car I get up the car stop walking around
the corner and they’re walking back it
tears in the eyes
what’s wrong what happened they did what
he did
No and II don’t believe it so walking
towards the car
and walking towards the car a cop was
standing right there
as I get closer to the car reality
starts to set in I must be believing it
I get you – from the window and the
driver’s seat I look in I see nothing
but blackness
I don’t even see him in the car I
blacked out again second time to happen
I was so angry frustrated I just wanted
to get the person who did it so two days
later we had the funeral after the
funeral I sat down with my friends I had
a moment of clarity I said what do I
think I’m gonna be in five years my
friend said I don’t know why the French
say probably in jail what do you think
will I said yeah probably in jail or did
either one we had low expectations of
life and her life was living we knew
that it could come to an end real fast
and we accepted
as time went on we got back into the
streets in the hustle again and we got
two more altercations and fights we got
into a shootout with another group of
guys I pulled my gun out I killed the
man 18 years old I was arrested sent to
jail charged with murder in the first
degree attempted murder on the witness
aggravator saw conspiracy and some
possession of an instrument of a crime
it was seeking the death penalty I was
sent to the worst prison in Pennsylvania
Holmes burg prison and when you walk
through the big doors 50-foot wall the
MA scream welcome to the terrordome
because that’s what it was
the terrordome row violent world while
real crazy nothing but murderers rapists
distortion this kidnappers in this
prison not sit right in
I keep my product at everybody I start
getting the face participating in the
riots it wasn’t slowing down the thing
was that I would call home eventually
talk to my mother because the prison was
always on the news and she was already
worried about her little boy the same
boy she remember me as I was five or six
years old not knowing how much I changed
oh how much the streets had changed me
so one day I call home and check on my
girlfriend because my girlfriend was two
weeks pregnant when I got locked up this
time go on months go by later later I’m
still participating in little activities
in the jail I’ll call home again
my sister answered the phone he said
congratulations I said what she had the
baby she said here congratulations I
said what we got what we had you said
you had the baby boy I said man break
him up him I got to see him bring him up
here I’m so excited I’m so happy
waiting for this day cuz I always wanted
the boy I can visit myself walking down
the street and welcome to the mall with
him when they’re coming for the visit I
went upstairs walked in the room my
sister hand me my son I grabbed him with
the big smile on my face looking at him
checking out his features making sure
his mind all right I said wow I got a
son holding a very proud moment in my
life I’m looking at him talking to him
thinking about myself thinking about him
thinking about his future the visit was
over real quick a half an hour so I go
back to my cell I sit down on my bed I
think I’m a father now what kind of
father I’m gonna be to my son if I’m in
jail and I knew I talked to my lawyer I
knew already that I would get some
daylight you were 20 to 40 years or 10
to 20 years in prison I was hoping for
the best but until then I knew I had a
job to do because I wanted to give my
son something that I never had a father
in the day
and I was sitting on my bed I’ll think
about how do I become this person this
teenager we didn’t care about nothing
was fearless
I took a self-evaluation test on my own
I thought about my life when I was
younger how I used to be as a kid then I
found the wise and my questions how did
I became that way I reflected back on my
life and a man putting a gun in my face
and other things that happened to me and
I forgave that man I forgave anybody who
heard me or my family then I wanted to
redeem myself I forgave myself for the
things I’ve done I knew that the only
way I could be successful and making
this transition because I wanted to
change my seeing the old men on the
block mopping the floors a 60 or 70
years old I was 19 I didn’t want that
for my life I was gonna ever get out of
jail I was never coming back I made a
vow I was convicted in my heart and it’s
not in the courtroom but in my heart and
I was never coming back to prison again
and I knew I had to keep myself to be a
good father because I dropped out of
school so I went back to school in
prison got my GED then I started reading
all kinds of books and magazines and
watching TV shows and listening to
speeches and movies and trying to take
anything from it I was going to teach
myself so I read the book one day and I
said well there’s a will there’s a way
I said wow that’s me I’m taking that so
in turn I ran to a difficulty or
challenge I said to myself with that the
world is away I might find a way to get
out of this and then I heard his speech
and the man stayed in the speech a man
who feels the plant as a man who plans
to fail I said wow that’s deep taking
this I’m start planning my life every
day on the jail sorry morning I wake up
out playing my day and I did a self
evaluation every year to see how much
I’ve grown with how much I’ve changed
then I watch the Bruce Willis movie and
Bruce Willis was acting all crazy and
the terrorists told Bruce Willis he said
you’re acting off the emotion it’s about
using a benefit here Internet I said wow
that’s heavy that was me
I was acting off the emotions on the
streets and not using them in it for my
intellect because I want any we talk
what was angry I was angry I want nobody
say anything to me I want you to talk me
out of anything I wanted to do but now I
learn how to use my intelligence instead
of my emotions that’s not getting better
at it in prison I turn the State
Penitentiary into my Penn State I made
it my college it’s not ready I studied
and I’ve read different books now that’s
picked up any good vibes from anything
or any good message from anything I
watched or seen I started growing as a
person and I started mentoring other
young inmates in prison before you know
it they was all listening to me and
following me and the wardens in the jail
wanted me to ask why some of the beefs
that’s going on in the prison but I was
able to talk to the young brothers to
cool him down as I grew older and then I
was faced with the reality of leaving
about 10 years was up I was afraid a
little bit because I’ve never been in
jail before and I’ve never been on
parole before I never been in this
situation so I said to myself with it’s
a will there’s a way
again we didn’t read that word I left
the mountains I looked back for one time
seen the prison saying never coming back
again I don’t know how but I’m never
coming back again so every day I just
plant my life I came home even though I
couldn’t get a job because I was a felon
convicted of a murder I knew I had
resources not from the city within me I
knew I was creative I knew I was a quick
learner I knew I had good qualities of
stuff but I had so I used that to help
navigate my way through life and I knew
the only thing that kept me straight is
my conviction my determination to change
for myself for my son and for all the
other young men and women in the
community who needed that direct
guidance it was caught up in the same
way about was caught up there I started
mentor and I started teaching I served
over 500,000 kids in from Philadelphia
to California Philadelphia to California
I probably serve over 2,000 adult men
and women speaking to them teaching them
helping them navigate their way through
life and travel the tribulation the
biggest problem that we have is that we
need redemption we need forgiveness in
order to reach peace in ourselves
because a lot of us war with ourselves
we don’t realize it so I start teaching
that method I want y’all to repeat that
to me what you think is what you say
what you say is what you do what you do
becomes habit what becomes habit becomes
your character and your character
determines your future we need change
I ain’t talking about pennies nickels
quarters dimes I’m talking about
changing hearts changing minds change
the name sound on these data lines
because I swear we have a problem here
neighborhood is full of fear when the
stands filled with empty chairs schools
unprepared so the best that we prepared
to work together as one with the police
commissioner tedxtalks in the mirror see
it’s a new day new year with new ideas
to share and talk about amongst us so we
can put the blindfold back over the eyes
of Lady Justice so she can’t see race
wealth or status I mean we living in
utter madness because the thoughts got
better apparatus in the police and I
ain’t got a search Iraq and Iran to find
weapons of mass destruction like a farm
right here and he’s American streets and
it gets deep if you stare down the walls
of City Hall long enough you might see
we on pen week because this was not what
the country was built for and the
Quakers didn’t build the first
Penitentiary to become a revolving door
then there’s more we need better
programs for ex-offenders to become
productive citizens they can’t get a job
at your job or his job they need to help
them create their own small businesses
this is what the business is creating
the safest cities by the communities and
by the town watching our communities so
we can first police ourselves reach
ourselves and teach ourselves that we
don’t have to live in vain or die in
shame because this this is all about
change so here’s the penny for your
thoughts a nickel for kiss a dime if you
tell us that you love this
America you have at least 16 cents to
spare thank you
you
you
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