Where+I'm+From+Daniels

Where I'm From
//by Ahlvoid Daniels, 10 grade student//

I'm from dryers from Dreft to Tide with bleach I am from the slums of Patterson Projects (straight off the black, metal monkey bars) I am from the tree in the park Jackson Avenue Whose booty huggers I remember As if I tried to play it off

I am from Yodels and magnifying glass from Mary and Al I'm from the old schoolers and know-it-alls and the hand-me-downs from you want something to cry about. I'm from he's coming to they killed my baby and ten crack commandments

I'm from Mary's Branch Fried chicken and sweet ass kool-aid cherry. From the bullet my pops took in a fight over money the knife in his back that took his life. Under my bed was sneaker boxes with old suede Jordans. A river with lost bodies to drift beneath the bridge I am from those times life before death and family before foe.

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