by Ophelia Williams
Ophelia Williams’ little niece and other family members wait for the bus near her mother’s house in Hayes Valley.
Where I’m from, boys don’t become men; they become inmates – lifers whose development is stifled by institutionalization. Girls don’t mature to womanhood; they become baby-mamas who steal and prostitute their adult lives away, their growth strangled by the byproducts of institutionalization.
Mothers don’t stick around to watch their children grow. They abandon them at birth and escape their responsibility to return to the call of the crack-rock. Fathers don’t exist. It’s on the promise of hope that our aging grandmothers attempt to raise children 50 years their younger in their “golden years.” Then, you have the institutions that feed off this prevalent despair.
I have witnessed this all.
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