[Originally published in Fleury’s book “Sparks in the Dark: A Lighter Shade of Blue, a Poetic Memoir”]
Thug Resume
Objective Don’t act too black, try not to scare the white man to get ahead
Education Ghetto University
Major: Surviving Society
Degree; Bachelors in Criminology
Work History Head welfare receiver
Robbery regulator
Gang leader
Sniper
Straight white male dissenter
Affiliations Gang bangers unity
Drug dealers industry
Illegal gun sellers society
Awards & Honors Achievement in “surviving the game”
Achievement in “homicide targeting black males”
Achievement in ‘confirming stereotypes”
Hobbies Gun slinging, police evading, inter-racial fighting
References Unavailable upon request
Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and a literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at: http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–
