Prose from Jacques Fleury

Painting of a school-aged Black boy in a blue tee shirt and backpack with trees and houses and the sky behind him. Black painted graffiti reads Thug?

[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

Young adult Black man with short shaved hair, a big smile, and a suit and purple tie.
Jacques Fleury

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.–

Silhouetted figure leaping off into the unknown with hand and leg raised. Bushes and tree in the foreground, mountains ahead. Book is green and yellow with black text and title.
Jacques Fleury’s book You Are Enough: The Journey Towards Understanding Your Authentic Self

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