Jail Bait Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Raising jail bait!
Little boys trained...
To be rough and tough from birth.
With no other skills learned on urban streets...
Where they are greeted by meanness.
And taught to lie.
Become deceitful.
Steal, hussle and cheat.

And an incarceration is done!
If not chased and shot down...
By the eagerness of police,
To shoot with a deadly aim...
With tasers,
And/or with high powered guns!

Raising jail bait...
With a taste for defeatism,
Blended with a craving for self hate.
And 'scholars' have spent generations in debate...
Seeking outsiders with drafted graphics,
To explain for all the coming fate!
But no one listening wishes to hear what is clear.
Since what is needed and proposed...
Is not delivered on a sugar coated plated!