Friday, February 13, 2004

what the hell have ya'all been reading back in the day???



"Young In Body . Ageless In Desire!




Before she was fifteen, Nina learned to play it the gang's way -- the way of the city's thrill-dizzy teenagers, the baby-faced bums. Their games were stealing and lusting, and they kept score by the sin! Even when you won, you lost . but Nina learned that you found something, too.




What she found was courage. She found it in reform school, amid the whippings and the brutal and perverse hungers. It was a courage so terrible, so final, that later she gambled her beauty and her body on a last chance at ecstasy with the guy she loved. But he had gambled as well. If he took a girl out of a gang could he also take the gang out of the girl?




A Smashing Novel of Youth's Boiling Passions In The Delinquent Underworld!"

Monday, February 09, 2004

i must remember why i write...

"I remember hanging out at parties on the hip hop scene, and you would get groped. I saw one rapper starting to sexually assault a woman at a club, and when I tried to get a bartender to help stop it, people thought I was crazy. But the real revelation came when I was standing on the dance floor, and the song 'Bitches Ain't Shit but Hoes and Tricks' came on. I thought, something is wrong here. So I dropped out of the scene and started doing more poetry."
- Sarah Jones