“Couldn’t hear nothing./Ears filled up with heartbeats/ like my head was being held/ under water.”Īnd: “In the bathroom/ in the mirror/ my face sagged,/ like sadness/ was trying to pull/ the skin off.” His brother Shawn was shot on the playground. No snitching./And always get revenge.” And those rules? “They weren’t meant to be broken./ They were meant for the broken/ to follow.” Will knows the rules of the hood: “No crying. Most of the novel-in-searing verse covers about one minute of Will’s life. Fifteen year old Will is burning to avenge his brother’s murder, in “Long Way Down” (Simon & Schuster 2017) by Jason Reynolds.
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