so far away
so, i was riding by a high school in tuscaloosa, the football team was having two a days. It made me think about when I was in high school.
before i was ever exposed to the drinking, the drug scene, the desert. before the war, before the killing, before I woke up next to a woman seventeen years older than me and realized only from the neck down am I "okay". before I had ever heard "you have the ight to remain silent" or "get the fuck down" or the sounds of mortars or machine guns. long before I ever got kicked out of my fucking house and started carrying a gun because one of my former roommates thinks I narc'ed on him for shit i didnt even know about.
I had a good GPA, an academic scholarship to a good university, I was in the honors program. Seriously, there are people that would do anything to have had what I had at 18. What the FUCK happened?
so, i was riding by a high school in tuscaloosa, the football team was having two a days. It made me think about when I was in high school.
before i was ever exposed to the drinking, the drug scene, the desert. before the war, before the killing, before I woke up next to a woman seventeen years older than me and realized only from the neck down am I "okay". before I had ever heard "you have the ight to remain silent" or "get the fuck down" or the sounds of mortars or machine guns. long before I ever got kicked out of my fucking house and started carrying a gun because one of my former roommates thinks I narc'ed on him for shit i didnt even know about.
I had a good GPA, an academic scholarship to a good university, I was in the honors program. Seriously, there are people that would do anything to have had what I had at 18. What the FUCK happened?