Ace of Spades

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sometimes I feel like I’m so lost in my own world, I don’t notice the things that seem so obvious to everyone else.

This world, our world, the one with houses as crooked as the people in them. Broken people, broken by the way the world works. No jobs, no money; sell drugs, get money. That’s what this world is, that’s how it works. I