Were you as excited as I was to read this week’s New Word poems by our Foster Park Elementary students? Here is Part 2 of of poems inspired by Jose Olivarez’s poem Hecky Naw.
Foe’ nem
Soriah H.
wearing a durag
talking in slang
walking down the street
wearing a chain pants hanging
low walking down the block
in the ghetto dapping up
to agree what yo homeboy
is sayin’ bein’ loud bein’
calm staying young on foe’nem
On foe’nem they time was
just begun
Chattin
Aleyah T.
When going nuts just because someone
need a private section to talk
crazy. To brag about living the luxury
but stuck in the hood. To say
they have lots and lots of cars and
big houses. Just because they love
to brag. They say so much about
having so much money
and always say, yes mom. They say
they don’t care about death or ‘nun
but scared of ghosts and spirits
Said he didn’t cry when someone
got hurt, but cry when you think
about them.
