The school bus carried them throughout the city….To church basements….synagogues….refuge for those without……Or, have lost along the way….

Loud…loud….loud….hip-hop beats bang off of mid-slid windows while cars….people of importance lined behind honk….and honk….and honk…honk…Enough already….

Voices yellin’ and tellin’ yesterday’s….last week’s…..last year’s….250 year old stories of victimization…..The  white man’s still the devil….Don’t you forget it …

But no salvation is sought….nothing to be fed to the soul…..just paper plates piled-high with lo- mein, cold-cuts, pasta salads, and an array of hot -n-cold cereals…..Dig in boys ..

The days are long and these nights of slumber…..too quick….