And I said to myself, "This is it. Everybody told me that I was going to get in a fight or get jumped if I lived in this neighborhood. And now it's going to happen."So I steeled myself, and he rode up next to me, and he looked at me and he said, "You're the poet, right?" [--Terrance Hayes]
from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: For Hayes, Pittsburgh and Poetry Are No Strangers
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