Shitty People

 

 

when 'friends' begin to smell/look/

turn

real shitty,

realize that they were never your friends.

 

 

don't even ask from where the shitty-ness came:

it was always there.

it was concealed under the blanket of friendliness.

you just chose to ignore the faintness of it.

 

just walk away.

 

Georgia Anne Muldrow - Great Blacks

This.

Numb

he was told by his mother
"not to tell what goes on in their house"
but he mentioned the beat-downs to a friend
casually,
thinking it was part of  every boy's life,
thinking it was an initiation into manhood.

he found out it wasn't.

it was just part of his life;
none of his friend's dads were abusing them.