Vices

   

One of my Vices

by Lawrence Lopez

 

My favorite vice would be money because with that you can have all of the other vices. I love to eat though, that’s another beautiful gift of life.

 

 



 

Sometimes

 

by Art Herrera

 

Sometimes I look back, back to high school

Pops was right, them fools were bad news…

But I was stubborn, thought I knew everything

Only reason I went to school was to gangbang…

Creased up, even had’a share clothes

Twice a week with the homies, did it for the hoes

A let me borrow that, I’ll let you borrow this

Before you knew it, had my lil’ brother in the mix

I felt real good! I mean real good!

To know that he became a member of my hood!

That’s how it is…that’s how it was…

Esé Doeboy walking home from school buzz…

I’ll tell you one thing thatcha didn’t know

He had will power! Something that I didn’t though

I shoulda pumped the brakes, when I had the chance

No longer sharing gear, now I’m wearing county pants…

 



Responsibility

by Shaun Moralez

 

One of my vices was doing drugs to ease the pain and to forget about reality, but upon doing so I got probation and lost my daughter. While I’m in here now I watch my daughter grow up in pictures and through visits. My grandparents are taking care of her, a responsibility that’s not theirs. I made my hita, she’s my responsibility, and instead of being in here I should be out there working and taking care of hita, being a good dad, one that my daughter can be proud of and depend on ‘cuz she’s got my last name, Moralez. She is another one of my vices becausewhen I was out there her mom was locked up so I got full custody of her and it was fun having her. She never left my side and having to do everything with her was good because there who love that responsibility. I would read her stories and play with her and crawl with her, teaching her how to crawl and having to set up appointments for her first month check-up, then her second month check-up, then her fourth and sixth and her ninth. But, I will not get to be at that one because I’ll be in here learning; and it’s weird saying “learning” because for the first time in my life I’m doing something constructive with my time.


 

100 Proof

by Prosperous Domingo

 

Bottles I boost

80 to 100 proof

Got the fire water, fuck the room

Gin, JD, Absolut

Bacardi, Alize, Grey Goose

Bring your liver I got the juice

I even drink alcohol usin’ fruits

Call it alcohol abuse

Party ‘til the clocks hit double deuce

‘til I see yous in twos

Slurr’d speech like my tongue’s bruise

I see shorty hangin’ out with the wrong group –

‘cuz she lookin’ kinda cute

or is it the liquor goggles put to use

Fuck it I’m brewed, in the mood

So I tell her “I just wanna get with you”

She just laughs n’ says I’m a crazy fool

On the real I just wanna get her nude

We already did the chop, now it’s time to do the screw

I told her “after I’m done with you we through”

She gets mad ‘cuz she feels used

Told her “I’m just your sancho, not your main dude”

Woke up next to her like “what do I do?”

Got her name tattooed, broke the balloon, n’ she’s as ugly as you!