The Sidewalk Motel: Poems from a Poverty Skola and PoShunary (the Po' People's Dictionary)At age 11, me and my mama became houseless, and I had to drop out of formal institutions of learning. I enrolled full time in the skoo of hard knocks to survive, where my Xingona warrior, indigenous, disabled, poverty skola Mama Dee was my writing teacher. Mama was a "G" and not user friendly or easy on me, but she was insistent that the AristoKrazy didn't own writing, history, art, poetry, theory and storytelling and that it was extremely important