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By Alfonso Manzo
No mindset like mine
Always on the run trying to find love.
But how can I love when my family is missing?
How can I love when I need me some new shoes?
My family is lower than Section 8.
How can I love when there was never love given to me?
Eating off the money I stole.
Robbed for.
Sold drugs.
Just to put money in my mother’s purse.
How can I love when my mother wouldn’t eat for days so my two brothers, three sisters and I could eat?
How can I love when my father has been in jail for 13 years?
How can I love when I used to spoon feed my mother, comfort her because of her seizures,
Half her brain and body stuck.
She passed away in front of my eyes.
Just tell me, please, how can I learn to love?
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