<pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">2 boys</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">1 Strap(gun)</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Bang times three</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">A body lies dying on the floor</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">While the killer runs free</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">No 'Snitching'</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">No Justice</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">There is no future for us</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The lost generations</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Education means nothing</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">P*ssy,Money,Weed </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Is all we need to survive</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The only grade we care about is the grade of weed</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Smoking our lives away</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Products of the hood </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">But we won't sell</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">We stay </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Sitting On the shelves of stereotype and oppression,violence and rage</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">In a store named </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">'The Hood'</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">N-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">His name is called and he is snapped back into his awful reality ;he gets up and hides his book of poetry his again under his mattress, concealed by the shadows and duty cobwebs to everyone but him.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He goes down the stairs to his mother.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He doesn't reply but makes his presence known </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Danielle faces her son of 17years . The doctors say he's 'Mute'.Told her he would never speak.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">That was the first and last day she cried for her son.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">"If you cry ; who's gonna be strong for him- he's mute;not an idiot or a vegetable , he'll be fine." she told herself each and every morning. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">"Could you go to the shop and get me some cerelac for Ayana please" she handed him a £5 note and went back to her third child Ayana currently 7months of age .</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Where is their father ? A story not for this moment ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The door was heard opening and Danielle felt a soft kiss planted on her cheek from her eldest as he did the same to her youngest .</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I left the house and pulled my hood up looking around before making my way to the shop; </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The air was thick with hopelessness</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">'They' call this place the 'hood' ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Its the british governments version of 'The projects' In america </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I.E- another way to oppress black people and those who were less fortunate; </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">It was a group of 8 different estate blocks ; poorly made ,just there to fit as many of us in as the fire marshall would accept </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Fires and leaky/burst pipes are as common as bacteria here </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">They also added a few 2 bedroom council houses </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">And a Care home</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Based in the heart of South-East london</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Gun&Knife crime was and still is a major problem here</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">As is Drugs and teenage pregnancy</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">So as a weak attempt to stop this they filled up every school and every pharmacy with nicotine patches and free condoms and morning after pills.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The dickeads don't even care - they've given up so we did the same - lived up to their ground level expectations </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Even feds don't really come here</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Just the odd bully van or squad car rolling - very quickly-In and out . They'll only stop if someone is literally dying on the floor</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Even then they don't bother to search for the killer just call the forensics to clear up the body and go on bout' their business</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">There's only really one way of living in the hood and change or individuality isn't exactly welcomed with open arms </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Which is why I don't share my poetry </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Seriously ? A 17year old n*gro from the hood,Mute since the age of 1 with a love and skill for poetry ?</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">'You must be having a bubble mate</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I don't know how I'm gonna make it out of here but I will, I'll defy the odds</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">It was a short journey there,about 2 blocks away </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">But it was more than enough time for me to be outside</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I absorb my surroundings and make them into words ; </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I live through words, the fact I cannot say them gives me a greater sense of appreciation to the actual meanings of words</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">More than 'normal' people,I guess .</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">People think cause I'm mute I'm an idiot ; the look of utter shock and confusion on my teachers' faces when I got 5A's inc.Maths and english in my gcses , The rest were B's </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Arriving at my destination It didn't faze me to find a group of jobless 'mandem' clustered outside the shop .</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I dug my hands deep into the cotton pockets of my hoody</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">And fixed my face into a hard screw </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Yet walked through them- through a thick cloud of marijuana smoke filling my lungs but I was used to it ; someone was blasting music as them man got gassed and recited the lyrics along with the music</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">#It aint calm, we don't squash no beef,</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">bally on my face 4 fizzy in my jeans.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Any batty boys RIP(how ya mean)#</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I got through unnoticed;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Because I'm not 'normal' males around here pay me no mind and I take comfort in that. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Of course,back in </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">My early teens there were the few dickeads that tried it on with me but Ofcourse I dealt with them swiftly by the time I was 15 and a half , word had got around that I'm not one to mess with and since then I've been at peace ;I do the odd shifty 'job' here and there but apart from that- I'm a ghost to this hood</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">"Ayo Taylor !" I stopped fumbling in my pocket for my keys and turned to face the direction the voice came from</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">It was Kevin - A perfect example of 'A product of the hood'</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Kicked out of his 3rd and final school at age 14</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Even centre didn't want him ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He shots everything from guns to knock off Sky Tv boxes,</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Hasn't been out of the 'hood' and doesn't plan to </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">A number of kids under his belt which he refuses to claim</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">An even larger number of abortions under that very same belt </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">No qualifications</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">No aspirations</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">The only male role models in his life are Johnny Gunz and Sneakbo,Political Peak and Cash ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Certified hoodrat</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He approached me his stance alert - you have to be round here,I guess you never know who's round the corner</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He stood infront of me his eyes permanently bloodshot and his lips a purple tint from the daily massive intake of marijuana </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I nodded at him as a greeting</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">"I got a delivery job for you ; same as usual just get the stash from the trap house and go to this address" He kept sniffing and rubbing his nose - No he didn't have a runny nose or a cold , this was the result of his constant cocaine sniffing </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">He was speaking in hushed tones and he passed me a piece of paper with the address written on it ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I nodded and spudded kevin indicating that I would take the job </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I gotta have some form of income around here </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I don't agree with it but what choice do I have ?</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Poetry aint getting me anywhere and I'm not applicable of doing anything else.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">You do it once - you're in for life . </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Plus, people trust me - Fedz never come knocking at my door ; they think I'm socially inept so never bother ;</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Mute</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">[myoot]</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">-adj.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">1. silent; refraining from speech or utterance. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">2. not emitting or having sound of any kind. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">3. incapable of speech; dumb. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Hood </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">?</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">1. The ghetto,Neighbourhood,projects </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">2. Someone who is from the ghetto. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">3. Someone who acts like they are from the ghetto. </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Other Slang: Hoodlum, Gangsta, Thug, Nigga, Pimp, Street-rat, Street Urchin, etc</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Poetic </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">1.The world through the view of those who can see what many can't</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">2.Poetic is a word that describes your self expression. Being poetic is turning little things that no one would see right away and turning it into a wonderful meaning. To be poetic you must have a feeling of knowledge of things around you, taking things of your dreams and making it your papers reality.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I.E - "O he, he is a poetic rose of life flowers layed" </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">His name is Taylor Amaru Harris ; </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">And that's just the way it is ; ... But for how long ?</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Poetically Mute In The Hood </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" />comment ! im not onna write if no-one is reading - if u like it comment if you dont, comment say why ;<br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">So Yaah the beginning is supposed to be one of his poems but he got cut off . Oh yeah the poems are actually written by me.</span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">You don't know his name yet cause .. I felt like it; I dunno I think its supposed to be like for effect </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">I think I'm gonna be switching between 3rd person and 1st person P.O.V in the chapters . </span><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><br style="line-height: 17px;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange</span></pre>
