Westlake

Where students can turn up

however they want to

with weed, with coke,

with Xanax that kills people,

with kids skipping class during lunch for Sonic

and flipping their car speeding through intersections back,

where teachers don't care and can't control the raging inferno

called estrogen and testosterone

in graffiti-littered stalls

with hot touches and sweat and gasps,

where there's nine fights in two days,

seven fights in one,

boys metivacked to the hospital

after getting jumped in the bathroom--

almost dying,

where my friend's brother was shot and killed dealing drugs

where seniors were arrested shooting during a party

where 1 and 4 people go to college

where kids are already engaged

ready to ruin their lives.

©SelfTitled, 2017