MEAN IS SURVIVAL Anaya Frazier 12th Grade • Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep
On Green Street They still tell stories about my mean old Great Grandma Maybell Say she didn’t come here Wrapped in hospital blankets Instead she picked herself Off of hell’s floor, walked right up to the devil & demanded his horns
Hid them under her wig before her arrival In the middle of making love to Grandpa Author Her wig slowly begins to lift
She burst through their bedroom Clothed only in sweat Rushes right out the front door & Yells to the whole block
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