By Joy Lynn Clark January 8, 2022 Before my Besty and I decided to look for a place, we went to a free performance that was advertised on the radio. There was a group performing there that I just had to see. I remember it like yesterday, Besty and I into the room and my eyes quickly divert to the stage where the group was performing and dancing. Someone grabs Besty and say, “do you vote, are you 18?”. In my mind, “barely but yes”. “Let me introduce you to this old guy politician who is distracting you from the concert.“. I’ll take the sticker or whatever they’ve got. My…

January 7, 2022 By Joy Lynn Clark This was probably when I moved back home with my toddler. I started watching this documentary about the Chicago theater when my dad entered the room. “That there are used to be called the Iroquois theater” said Dad. Then he told me that he even was in the, “black film projectionists” guild or something. I guess that’s what a guy like my dad can Get back in the day. Imagine that, film.

By Joy Lynn Clark January 5, 2022 Technically, this isn’t love but it is in the pursuit of. I met this one dude online five or six years ago. He was an armed services veteran with a prescription for cannabis. We talked on the phone and had a deep conversation about our disabilities, he had brain damage. When it came time to meet, he lives kind of far. I was hoping we could meet halfway but, duh no car.

By Joy Lynn Clark January 5, 2022 After meeting my new friends that helped me open up my locker, I also met a boy. He helped me with my locker from time to time and we grew close fast. When I wasn’t with my girls, I hung out with this boy. At home I had a cable box and a landline with my own phone number. I talked to this dude all the time. For some reason, everything seems so hard. The guy and I went to the fall dance. It was pretty cool. We just stuck with each other though. It seemed as if I didn’t even know the…

January 1, 2022 By Joy Lynn Clark Viacom opened a department store in Chicago on Michigan Avenue. My step niece and I applied. Strangely, they drug tested-by hair sample. Anyhow, we were hired. A future classmate of mine, my step niece, and I. My classmate was in another department and my step niece and I were in Paramount pictures. We attended our Charlton Heston training and I went on about Ben Hur’s chariot on our sales floor. We sold movie memorabilia. We even had a red carpet. I stopped by before I went out to do my all important rap promo stuff. And I also met a Viacom personality. Soon…