once where people who "made it" went when they fled the city... but then it became the place where broke people got put once they started blowing up projects and moving broke black & brown people out of the city and into the county.

and it ends in Dundalk which defies my ability to describe it. you got broke black people & broke white people and most of them like each other and they boo each other up and then there are racists that hate each other not knowing they all in the same boat.

anyway

sometimes i take the 40 to work. during the morning rush hour, it stops in front of SSA where it becomes packed with people leaving some kind of methadone clinic.

them fools be arguing, cussin, scratchin, stankin, and telling the most hilarisad stories you've ever heard.

all while

the bus is also filled with wild ass young school aged kids.

it's an overload to the senses.

but it's real

it's authentic

it's Baltimore