The storefront sat back from the road behind a bank and a nail salon and a place that sold phones in glass cases. The sign above the door had letters that leaned as if the wind had set them there wrong and left them. QUALITY LEANING CENTER. A child’s plastic slide lay on its side…
Tag: Opportunity
Tell Him Big Xi Did It
Notorious B.I.G.’s song “Gimme The Loot” about street robbery careers makes scoffing reference to prey who have no practical means of resistance. After a discussion about the ease of robbing women, he simultaneously anticipates and mocks a threat of retaliation, announcing that he knows no effectual response will be forthcoming. Bitches get strangled for their…