Born a Crime

“You sure?”
“Yep.”
“Can we help you?”
“Nope.”
“Do you need a tow?”
And what do you say? The
truth? “Thanks, but we’re just so
poor my mom makes her kid push
the car”?
That was some of the most
embarrassing shit in my life,
pushing the car to school like the
fucking Flintstones. Because the
other kids were coming in on that
same road to go to school. I’d take
my blazer off so that no one could
tell what school I went to, and I
would bury my head and push the
car, hoping no one would recognize
me.