CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD I was stripped of my childhood, at the age of 16 I walked naked in manhood. My parents were Rolling Stones. No they were never in a rock band or on the cover of a magazine It's just that they never hung around enough to gather any moss trips back and forth to Africa, in search of better life for us always made me feel like the one we had wasn't good enough so me and my sisters harvested ourselves trying to see the fruits of my labour hanging from my family tree but you see it's hard to grow trees in London City My the age of 17, I knew that walking a certain way would have consequences If my pants hang too high around my waist, and my trainers were slyly out of date I might as well have been walking with a target painted on my back. You learn to do adult shit real quick like you learn add base in your voice when asked provocative questions. You learn to hold a man's gaze just long enough to prevent him from calling you a "pus...
