They call us Children of Violence

so our learning skills

prepare us for a war-zone

Kids pick up a gun faster than a pencil

only to make mistakes that are no longer erasable

Our math skills are influenced by drug lords and prostitutes, you get to count them daily

The graffiti walls adorn our city painted by the most famous crystal heads, art at its finest 

Gang lands help you acknowledge the geography that is your reality

History is hidden in the graves of the Black Panthers, the movement no longer is for the People

We graduate with Honors 

in the Murder category

We seem to no longer have a future as our main targets become our children

Whose bodies drop as the same speed of Chicanos dropping out of high school

Welcome to East Oakland CA 

I am a child of Violence