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I have a short one, and then another one from the book .
And then I call it a day.
This is kind of a short monologue.
It's a persona poem in the voice of one of the guards.
It's kind of a monologue persona poem, found
poem in the voice of one of the guards from juvie where I work.
I always like when he's the guard who brings the kids down,
because he also takes an interest in what we're doing.
And then keeping the kids in line and stuff, which
none of the guards do.
And he always-- he also tries to tell them
something about where he is.
So anyway.
The guard in juvie tries to hip some unruly kids
as to what's in store.
See, that's the problem with you little niggers,
you think you know everything.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm trying to tell you some shit,
so you might not have to come back here.
But y'all 16, and think you already know shit.
[LAUGHTER]
Look, you think I wasn't here before where y'all is?
But in my day, we beef, and got up, and fought,
and got knocked down.
And beef, and got knocked down, and got up
until we ain't got knocked down no more.
And everybody walk away.
Y'all lose a fight and come back all blam, blam, blam.
[LAUGHTER]
And now you can't even be nowhere.
Think you can't be somewhere.
Then you get scared and take some bullshit ass court
appointed attorney 16 months parole deal bullshit.
Nigga you don't agree to no 60 months parole.
Five years, nigga.
Nigga, five years.
Nobody out here can't go no five years
without doing something wrong.
Can't leave the state.
Can't get a speeding ticket.
Can't even take a drink.
Ain't no citizen can go no five years without at least one time
he got to take his dick out and pee on a tree.
[LAUGHTER]
You can go five years without taking your dick out, nigga?
[LAUGHTER]
Bet you, you can't.
Then next thing you know, you right back
here-- locked up 10 years, 20 years.
Fucked up in the game, but yeah.
You ain't got to listen to me, player.
You's a big man, Joe.
You's a big man.
[LAUGHTER]
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