Prisoners

Prisoners
ISBN-10
0930773535
ISBN-13
9780930773533
Series
Prisoners
Category
Fiction
Pages
92
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Black Heron Press
Author
Jerome Gold

Description

Poems about gang youth. In The Thrill of the Day, he writes: "I got bored at school and decided / to chill with some white girls I knew / who give b.j. because they want to / save their virginity for when they get married. But before anything happened my pager went off so I / hopped on a bus ..."

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