The tribe

Watching the fume escape the cylinders of a wrecked Cadillac while my  
Color lay on the streets hunting one another over  worthless chicken  
penny ....I was scared of my color ...the black American .....they  
knew I wasn't one of them regardless the color .....they could tell  
from the dress code .......a lanky one approached me in a rude  
manner ....I would have called the cops but what sense would it  
make .......having the law imprison my black brother even while he's  
still a prisoner of the American society ......it's like administering  
lethal injection to an inmate after serving a decade in  
jail ...........nevertheless...he wandered away while I continually  
played a deaf man to the rest public.

These were my brothers and sisters back in Africa........until we sold  
them over fancy objects like the mirror because we thought like humans  
with pig brain.

On the adjacent street a couple of teenagers ought to be in school  
stood at the corner rolling dice while money flew in the air like  
particles......they have accepted an incessant gibberish  
fate.....either we are athletes or artist ......if not we have no  
other ways of surviving the American society but to gamble on the  
streets and peddle drugs

Like the eygptian, we forced our own blood to exile....even the  
beggars on the streets of Lagos are better off compared to what am  
seeing in Akron ......I wonder what Brooklyn, Bronx,Roxbury, New  
Orleans, Georgia etc. would be like....... American dogs live better  
than the poor black people living in the streets of America

We are no longer fighting for rights, we are no longer trying to show  
the hatred filled racist that it is self evident that we are all  
equal............See how the black rappers move from grass to grace to  
grass......multi-millionaires turn bankrupt after her reign is  
over ..........just like African leaders the never think of the coming  
generations ...so they spend extravagantly and donate only when  
some one's watching.

Going deeper into the jungles of Akron .....I took off my wristwatch  
and switched off my celly.........a thousand stares........pierce  
through my body like I was the naked Saint Lucy.........understanding  
and analysing the cold atmosphere.......inhaling impurity-filled air  
mixed with cigarette and marijuana...........I cared less about my  
thereabout ......watching this young folk digging through hotel  
garbage ......the hoteliers threw out excess into garbage and my  
hungry brothers starved............obviously I became a thief's  
possession .....sooner or later I would be stripped and  
robbed ....getting as close a I could to the hungry folk ......I  
purposely left a $20 bill and made away from the  
ghetto ......straight home to streetsboro

Hitchhiker

Spinning an empty bottle of vitamin water ........enduring and ensuring that am still safe while the smoked reefer just 10 feet away from the police.....my heart pounded like the busted illegal immigrant.....first I was a noncitizen and I don't have any X- factor

Searching for the nearest Mart to make a drop.....I found one, with nothing left but a fidgeting voice that projected how scared I was ... yet they all couldn't sense my situation ....., I put my music to rest and thought of my mother's facial expression.....how depressing and irritating the looked at me she would never foresee me doing drugs or doing venial wrongs.....was never a bad boy...resisted peer pressure and declined to subject to luring prodigious adventures

Perspiring like a panting dog....feeling the wind blow through to flush out the regions of separate diffusion of Reefer particles while my mind sank to every sharp swerve the took to dodge the police......I knew I had to speak up.......I tried but I was fearful on my own breath. I stuttered on my twisted tongue and manage to say “STOP"!!!!!!!!!...........I was pulled aback when they odometer read 140 on a 60 limit road.........a boogie day I must say.....I wasn't daydreaming .......I could tell who was who and what the cloud looked like at every moment

I let the tea run cold while the moment lasted......this is certainly un-me.....veraciously I shouted ....till they all came a little to their human senses"am pressed I really need to use the restroom"....a clever sentence that sounded un-adult......they let me go at a Sear retail store nearby while their brains fried till who knows .....

I let that incidentally event slide ......this is a typical situation every hitchhiker would experience especially in sensitive notorious places like ROXBURY. MASSACHUSETT

Midnite Snacker

Blessed days I slept without worry....suppressing the hunger I feel within ....belly cried, legs creaked like doors suspended aloft, unbalanced on loose hinges..........my nerves shook me up with every second pause in my dream........been dreaming about Alice while we drank tea brewed by Mexicans at wonderland .....

Am startled.....filled with exasperation.........I let out the stinking yawn ......air pollution i suppose.......stealing a glance from the darkness the clock read 3:00am......no Chinese, no pizza and certainly no DP Dough......disgraceful company with disgusting menu ......an insult to intestines....an embarrassment and joy killer to the stomach.

Off to Kroger’s, cherishing, salivating, and thinking of Sushi. Closed was the only tangible sign I could see...with no option left and mouth filled with rattle sighs.....I walked to MacDonald's drive- thru.........feeling somnolent like a kitty.My presence hadn't been noticed, I stood there like a street pole which no one considers significant till the fell......and probably kill someone.

A lady comes up and asked what would you like ........a welcoming question with a negative gesture .......apparently she had a .45 conspicuous enough for a bat to see. Out of massive terror, I replied a double stacker .....Reaching down for my wallet.....She made it for her pocket as well and came up with the menu ..........what a dramatic showdown i thought to myself.... Had I reached down for something inappropriate I would have been possibly labeled the RIP.

I went home looking hysterical .......staring at my ceiling .......wondering what an episode of life I just went through......With a grumpy sound from my intestines I reached out for my midnite snack ........then chilled till the break of dawn.