came out in his slippers and his
socks. He wasn’t dressed for work.
“Yo, G, what’s going on?
What’s up with the job?”
“Oh, I don’t work there
anymore.”
“Why?”
“They accused me of stealing
something and I got fired.”
And I’ll never forget thinking to
myself that it felt like he did it on
purpose. He sabotaged himself so
that he’d get accepted back into the
group again.
The hood has a gravitational
pull. It never leaves you behind, but