WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.792 align:middle line:90% [AUDIENCE APPLAUSE] 00:00:00.792 --> 00:00:07.650 align:middle line:84% I have a short one, and then another one from the book . 00:00:07.650 --> 00:00:11.370 align:middle line:90% And then I call it a day. 00:00:11.370 --> 00:00:21.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:21.050 --> 00:00:23.090 align:middle line:84% This is kind of a short monologue. 00:00:23.090 --> 00:00:27.500 align:middle line:84% It's a persona poem in the voice of one of the guards. 00:00:27.500 --> 00:00:30.050 align:middle line:84% It's kind of a monologue persona poem, found 00:00:30.050 --> 00:00:34.910 align:middle line:84% poem in the voice of one of the guards from juvie where I work. 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:37.490 align:middle line:84% I always like when he's the guard who brings the kids down, 00:00:37.490 --> 00:00:39.937 align:middle line:84% because he also takes an interest in what we're doing. 00:00:39.937 --> 00:00:42.020 align:middle line:84% And then keeping the kids in line and stuff, which 00:00:42.020 --> 00:00:43.250 align:middle line:90% none of the guards do. 00:00:43.250 --> 00:00:46.550 align:middle line:84% And he always-- he also tries to tell them 00:00:46.550 --> 00:00:48.040 align:middle line:90% something about where he is. 00:00:48.040 --> 00:00:48.920 align:middle line:90% So anyway. 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:51.230 align:middle line:84% The guard in juvie tries to hip some unruly kids 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:52.160 align:middle line:90% as to what's in store. 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:54.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:56.570 align:middle line:84% See, that's the problem with you little niggers, 00:00:56.570 --> 00:00:57.365 align:middle line:90% you think you know everything. 00:00:57.365 --> 00:00:58.105 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:58.105 --> 00:00:59.480 align:middle line:84% I'm trying to tell you some shit, 00:00:59.480 --> 00:01:01.220 align:middle line:84% so you might not have to come back here. 00:01:01.220 --> 00:01:03.530 align:middle line:84% But y'all 16, and think you already know shit. 00:01:03.530 --> 00:01:04.550 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:04.550 --> 00:01:07.100 align:middle line:84% Look, you think I wasn't here before where y'all is? 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:10.100 align:middle line:84% But in my day, we beef, and got up, and fought, 00:01:10.100 --> 00:01:11.120 align:middle line:90% and got knocked down. 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.263 align:middle line:84% And beef, and got knocked down, and got up 00:01:13.263 --> 00:01:14.930 align:middle line:84% until we ain't got knocked down no more. 00:01:14.930 --> 00:01:16.070 align:middle line:90% And everybody walk away. 00:01:16.070 --> 00:01:18.440 align:middle line:84% Y'all lose a fight and come back all blam, blam, blam. 00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:19.520 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:21.150 align:middle line:84% And now you can't even be nowhere. 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:23.030 align:middle line:90% Think you can't be somewhere. 00:01:23.030 --> 00:01:25.760 align:middle line:84% Then you get scared and take some bullshit ass court 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.990 align:middle line:84% appointed attorney 16 months parole deal bullshit. 00:01:29.990 --> 00:01:33.290 align:middle line:84% Nigga you don't agree to no 60 months parole. 00:01:33.290 --> 00:01:34.820 align:middle line:90% Five years, nigga. 00:01:34.820 --> 00:01:36.110 align:middle line:90% Nigga, five years. 00:01:36.110 --> 00:01:38.150 align:middle line:84% Nobody out here can't go no five years 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:39.770 align:middle line:90% without doing something wrong. 00:01:39.770 --> 00:01:40.880 align:middle line:90% Can't leave the state. 00:01:40.880 --> 00:01:42.260 align:middle line:90% Can't get a speeding ticket. 00:01:42.260 --> 00:01:43.430 align:middle line:90% Can't even take a drink. 00:01:43.430 --> 00:01:47.000 align:middle line:84% Ain't no citizen can go no five years without at least one time 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.040 align:middle line:84% he got to take his dick out and pee on a tree. 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:49.220 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:49.220 --> 00:01:51.637 align:middle line:84% You can go five years without taking your dick out, nigga? 00:01:51.637 --> 00:01:52.640 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:54.170 align:middle line:90% Bet you, you can't. 00:01:54.170 --> 00:01:55.970 align:middle line:84% Then next thing you know, you right back 00:01:55.970 --> 00:01:58.657 align:middle line:84% here-- locked up 10 years, 20 years. 00:01:58.657 --> 00:01:59.990 align:middle line:90% Fucked up in the game, but yeah. 00:01:59.990 --> 00:02:01.640 align:middle line:84% You ain't got to listen to me, player. 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.200 align:middle line:90% You's a big man, Joe. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.400 align:middle line:90% You's a big man. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:05.900 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:09.250 align:middle line:90% [AUDIENCE APPLAUSE] 00:02:09.250 --> 00:02:14.443 align:middle line:90%