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POPS the Club

Added Oct 01, 2020 •

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*What is POPS?* POPStheClub provides safe, in-school peer spaces for teens with incarcerated loved ones to gather, create, and heal through their shared experience.

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show me all the ways to say you know no one understands me no no one understands me you don't cuz I'm from the ghetto known as trash and when I got to pee change me pops has allowed me to reconnect with my family cuz before like I honestly thought that I was pop in a box and if I would have screamed help like nobody would help me I was on a whole nother level beginning of my senior year of high school I was just like all right I'm just I'm just here just be here now everything Pops I will want to go to school looks like a whole nother world Chicano your new and I was like yeah it's my first time tell me what a great you know cuz I mean I'm welcome you know or anything you know I liked it no more and it means a lot to me because talking to people that been through the same thing you know same pain use like step into the classroom it's like the whole like negativity like leaves the classroom and went to go in and just like no one judges you cuz I could stay safe place for family on Discovery I can express myself the word to paper and toilet paper everybody has a story is it takes the right person to help you tell it I know more words now in my vocabulary has expanded now before I can only stay home easa only small words now I'm using like complicated words now every every single word that goes into that place is going to stay in that place and it's not going to go nowhere else only play so it goes in that book Marcus is called cat my head on straight 0 1 2 3 I didn't call the woman who gave birth to me mother because I didn't wake up to her every morning I never thought of any public I mean you know I'm grateful for that I know I mean gift from God you know poems call Melanie like I'm a pico-union resident my old Melody came and went go to  My Mama pay the rent I wouldn't want people to pity me that's right before I like I never really told because I was like feel like we'll be sorry about me now instead of being sorry they understand me call letter to my brother I miss you brother it's been a long since I seen you in it still hurts I don't hear from me or for the whole family pops it's like a gateway to going to somewhere better well Tommy's me and meanest hope you can stay for like kids I need to know