3rd draft of air jordan's poem

This poem Please Don't take my Air Jordan's is very mind provoking because, why would someone do something like this just so the could look good and cool.  I think this poem is all about how this kid is in poverty a little because, in the beginning he talks about how he ain't got no money no job and etc.  I can see that back then or maybe if this is recent that they probably would do something like this, becuase Michael Jordan was a huge and famous player.  It just seems a little bit off and wrong becuase if this happended in today's world everyone would be shocked. I also notice at the end of the poem he doesn't really stop there he wants more stuff like a new jacket and he feels confident.

The poem is a little like society today but people wouldn't kill other people for shoes; I mean they used to but now a days they steal shoes.  It seems that when this was written or the time period it must have been like this.  My observation about this poem is that it is very serious and a litttle weird to me, becuase i mean no just goes around shooting people for shoes, I mean only if your crazy.  It still just makes me want to peruse Please Don't Take My Air Jordan's.

  The character in this poem seems to always wanna look fresh for his crew, not look janky, and look fresh all the time.  I just don't under stand why he had to kill the kid for some sneakers  I mean is he that poor.  Jordan's are like a very popular thing in society and they go with the your cool or your not cool style.  I infer that in this time period life was like this becuase of all the new and popular things coming out.  It seems that in this poem that killing is what " you got's to do" to get something. 



 

This poem in some ways can connect to me but not alot, becuase the world I live in today is if your poor ypur not rich.  I think all people iin this world want to be is succseful with money and alot of stuff.  Don't get me wrong i have stuff in my life but people like this guy seem to just want things to just have them.  I feel that in my neighboorhood this would actually happen but no one would get killed.  I just think this kid was poor and when your poor you don't wannna show that your poor.  So I believe that people are like this in the world and things like this would happen, becuase just recently i watched Lottery Ticket and the bad guy had stolen the new shoes that the kid had just bought.  Poeple in the world at that time and today I think would do this horrible thing.

I also see that he says, that he wants a new jacket-(line)

"with my brand new air jordans man was i cool
i killed to get them but hey . . . i don't care
cuz now. . . i needs a new jacket to wear."

It just seems that this kid will never stop stealing and killing.