Page 410 of Glass (Crank 2)

all within sight of hillside mansions.

I’d look up at those houses, he told

me more than once,

and think to myself, no reason why

that can’t be me, living up there.

No reason at all,

except getting sucked down into

the swamp. Meaning welfare or the drug

trade or even the cliché

idea that sports were the only way out.

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