the incorrigible nature of the so called

it was late sunday way after
we were sposed
to be already moved but being bj's
birthday n him the one with
the truck we just cooled our heels till we figgered we
could be doing the month's
worth of clothes my brother
stuffed into one big
garbage bag on friday
when it looked like we might
be moving then, but bj said
monday since monday's the day
the landlord's gonna hafta
call the cops or maybe
give a bad rental referral ,so
monday , fine, i told tony
i've got enough cash seeing as how
your boss [n now our new
landlord,bj, the guy
with truck] won't
make us pay rent until
the place is fixed up [we don't
have to pay anything bj agrees ]
cuz it's gonna be tony,
his thirteen year
old son, the four
dogs--chubs, chico, aramatu, bruno--all
males, two
cats--chilo, scarlet-- the kittens
we haven't named yet plus
me and my named but unborn
baby [83 percent certain it's a girl] who's
gonna be here soon
enough and it's not like i'm not alREADY
scared to death of the whole
situation but he's TRYing so
we get the laundry
loaded in the car praying
for the big machines to be free
and god loves us
cuz the laundrymat's pretty much empty
except for this one latino
woman who keeps struttin round tony
who's trying to watch the jessee james special
cuz we ain't had
tv since the feds went digital
so i KNOW he
prolly WAS watching tv
when he said BAD ass
not FAT ass
but the bitch tells me to get my man
under control and i maybe
was a bit harsh
saying what are you doin
watchin her ass but he
goes inside n says in that antagonistic
tone he has lady i was not watchin your ass
n she does the head bob o yes
you were
n i'm callin my man down here
right now so we grab the clothes
cuz they're dry and stuff em
into the garbage bags fuck
folding them , throw them
into the car meanwhile the nutcase
cuz she pulls her car up beHIND us and godDAMMIT
why didn't you bring
the cell phone i can't
believe this bitch we need
a cop right now, we're
yellin at each other and she's yellin
back n along about then
a truck pulls up and seven
guys jump out,
grab tony, beat him
down onto the pavement , i'm
crying, tony jr's
cowering in the back
seat, one of they guys jumps up
on the hood and smashes
the windshield so bad i can
barely see to drive
when they finally do
leave and let me n tony jr
wrestle tony into the car
so we can get home and call the cops and maybe an ambulance
cuz tony looks pretty bad, his head's
swelling up his left
eye's punched closed and did you get
a license plate the cops
wanna know but we
didn't cuz it was waaaaay too scarey
my god there were SEVEN
of them and i'm PREGnant but the cop
wants to know how it is tony gets
himself into these situations and i tell em
i dunno they seem to follow
him around like lightning seeking ground
and that's when tony tells them how
indeed lightning hit him not
once but twice n the cop just shakes
his head then tony's hand n i can't shake
the irony when he says yeah you're lucky
to be alive bro n tony agrees.