Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: On Friday, Father Jack met with [Jaivon] Blake's

mother to talk about the service for her son. She handed the priest the poem Jaivon had written, foretelling his own demise. It is called "Thoughts of a Mine."

"I couldn't read it all the way through at first," Father Jack said. "I was so overwhelmed. The idea that a 16-year-old boy could sit there and write this, and seem to know that he was going to die violently. And then to have this vision of a kid riding away on a bicycle after shooting two other kids."

The cops say Blake was not on their radar screen. He wasn't in a gang. He didn't have a record. He didn't go out of his way looking for trouble.

from The Boston Globe: Boston teen foretold his own death

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