April 24, 2023:
"Lay a little 'No Woman' on me."
Macho biker badass, bruiser in oil-stained denim, poster boy among multiple cooperating neighborhood door-to-door drug dealers, really just a big softie underneath. Cross-legged on my apartment floor at Abbott and Voltaire, misty-eyed and sentimental over "No Woman No Cry" on repeat.
Graffiti in the laundry room: We love our locked-down homeboys.