Follow Me

FOLLOW ME By, Naomi Humphrey

Follow Me On this walk to school Past the corner store Well actually two corner stores, or mini-marts, or bodegas, whatever you like to call them We don’t have a supermarkets around here I am not sure why

Take the 55 to get to the closest one Follow Me Past the park It is the nicest in the neighborhood The bathrooms don’t work, the water fountains need fixin’ , and but it’s the nicest park in the neighborhood The swing set and play equipment has been broken for as long as I have lived here but it’s the nicest park in the neighborhood

Wave at your friends, well my friends, who have decided that school is no longer necessary The life they are choosing to live; to guard this park as if they own it Well they believe they own it, I guess that counts I am not sure why Wave at them, pray for them You envy them I am not sure why

Follow Me Past the park We are almost there The nicest park in the neighborhood sits side by side next to a meating packing factory It’s hard to ignore the stench, the fumes, the way it fills inside your lungs The way its swirls and constricts around your throat and rushes to your head But you have go!en use to it, we think

Walk down The Block Our school, my school is in sight Follow Me Cross the Street We are here We have arrived