What, me extreme? One doesn’t do five years in Angola (LA State Pen) and come out calm as a clam. Of course, as you can tell, having ‘signed my Sorry Papers,’ I am totally rehabilitated. ya know??! it’s so obvious.

On reflection, what enabled me to fit/survive in C-4 (Colored Four) was a common/mutual, bone-deep rage. It is a two-sided coin, tho, because the intensity can eventually own you, thus becoming another form of enslavement, Tre. ‘Balance’ is so elusive, as you know, but the only worthy objective. The only key to the lock. n.