The 2019 Drug Epidemic

A drug epidemic?Since when?
 It wasn't called that when black boys an girls were shooting up in cold broken window hallways in Tenements..

or going to the back of the candy store on 116th.st an 8th ave. Getting needles and syringes for a dollar in a size #1.bag that fit perfectly tight around a cold beer can like a hoes skirt cuffed at the edge.
It wasn't called an epidemic then.

When equality wasn't listening an ashy knees of black kids waited in the winter to be bussed to the white neighborhoods

While white kids ran up in bed bug roach infested Hotels for dope
lead by sen. kennedy Son-who died of a OD.like the soul of black kids pride,denied in white schools.

While the smell of gunpowder an blood was the last taste of a bold fight for equality by his uncle Robert F. kennedy asking "Not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

It wasn't a Drug epidemic
when Broken bloated baseball mitt Hands from Needle marks an Quinine,Tore checkerboard Deep ulcers,in young men's skin displayed on their arms an legs like jewels in the summer heat.

Their Abscessed spirit oozed...
When they Pounded stolen silverware sculpting Bracelets sold on Harlem
streets for a fix.

When was it a Drug
EPIDEMIC?
When hispanic kids were told "go back to puerto Rico on the banana boat"
ODing on Rooftops around the corner from the corner Bodega in spanish Harlem.

Where down below
under the EL.
My homegirl Thelma, pulled tricks.

Thelma The Girl voted most likely to succeed life.trickin with Tricks with their Glass
dicks,full of Crack.

It wasn't an epidemic then.

Was it an Epidemic
When Odon a gay kid from Hungary 
OD'd in Rikers island because he stole from the poor box from St. stephen's church for a shot?.
Or pretty Blond Tommy blew College professors,beating their ass, an Robbing them in Times square Bathrooms?
No.
NOW Its a Drug EPIDEMIC!
Why.
Because rappers Die from Drinking lean?
Cause Rich kids slump in Dads car Begging their Parents for money.
strung out
On prescription drugs stolen from moms medicine cabinet.

And there's Interventions on TV.
or College kids shoot bootleg heroin mixed with fentanyl?

And so called Politicians say Minority's an
Mexicans are Whores an Drug dealers.
While Billionaire Cartel bosses happily choke kids Veins answering politicians remarks .

Then your kids are junkies
Watch us deal death.
spoon feeding
blue + green haired kids lost in a colorless world of depression, of excess, of complacent social media.

refereed by Drugs who called it a Draw.with privacy an the state.

When pharmaceutical companies threw in the towel to money greed in every round
Now its a Drug Epidemic?.
Now?
Naw...
it's what it always was
Blood for powder
Powder for money

A DRUG epidemic?
Nah...
Just business as usual.