Portside

My name [Inaudible.]

By Patricia Mona Eng

I go by my middle name, Aaron

I played drums [Whispering.]

When I was at Sequoyah High: 1916 Piedmont Road.

It's definitely an outlet Yeah,

If I'm angry or something Gold Spa.

I go down to my drum set [Inaudible.]

And start hitting stuff Right now.

It just helps So, can help me, come.

My friends say 1916 Piedmont Road.

I am super nice, super Christian Huh?

A deeply religious person I don’t know.

And very quiet [Inaudible.]

I would walk around school That guy,

With a Bible: that’s why. Need police.

Pizza, guns, drums, music, Yeah

family, and God [Whispering.]

This pretty much sums up my life Gold Spa.

It's a pretty good life Gold Spa.

I was saved at Crabapple First Baptist Church [Inaudible.]

They are all praying for me now Sorry.

Just before it happened Thank you.

My parents kicked me out Hiding right now,

And so I was emotional that’s why.

You can believe me when I say They have a gun.

It was not about race [Inaudible.] That’s why.

I just wanted to eliminate Yeah. [Inaudible.] That’s why.

Temptation Um, this is Gold Spa.

And I was pretty much fed up [Whispering.]

And had been kind of I don’t know,

At the end of my rope I’m hiding right now.

And yesterday was just Oh, yeah.

A really bad day [Inaudible.]

For me I don’t know.

And this is just Please come,

What I did. OK?

My name [Inaudible.]

[Whispering.] Thank you.

Please.

Patricia Mona Eng is a poet from the Boston area. She has studied poetry in an undergraduate workshop led by J.D. McClatchy and in workshops led by Tom Daley.