Ghetto

Five-step stories, paint on the wall,
Old head teaching the young ones all.
How to split bread, how to watch that dog,
How to laugh when the fridge is pour.
June heat sticky on a rusted hoop,
Someone got winds and the whole block whoop.
Sirens pass, but we keep on,
Planting seeds in the cracked up loan.
Hands up, hands high, we don't fold, we don't lie.