Daily Bread

Hello and thank you for taking the timeout to allow me to give you a pieceof me. My name is Jetton Rick Ali Freeman better known as Da Starand this is my first of many books of poems. My work is inspired by dailyevents thats happens in my life and most time yours (the reader) as well.I was raised by a single strong woman by the name of Harriett Freemanalong with my older sister Velvy Freeman. In the past I had a youngerbrother Jason whom I never got a chance to know well because at a veryyoung age he died of crib death. I want to believe that was the reason. Mydad name is Willie Swanson and he use to beat my mom like a n***a on thestreet, for the reasons we may never know. Im not a detective but I feel likethat was the cause of my little brothers death, the beatings and the blackeyes and kicks to the stomach. I was in and out of school coming up andeven in my elementary and Jr. High school I done pretty well. My moralsin life were different then, money wasnt everything it was about having funand having two or three girlfriends. But once I got to the stage (you knowhigh school) it was a whole different ball game. If you didnt have moneyand a car you were we called a bum. I never was into gangs even thoughI had cousins that were affiliated with them, but it wasnt my thing. After Idropped out of school I was just a guy on the streets hustling and doing allnighters out there just to make money. I sold every type of drug there wasto be sold from crack to water (abdominal fluid). Then once I got caughtby the police it wasnt as fun anymore so I stopped. I joined a continuinghigh school and got my GED, then later attended Sanford Brown andcompleted one year of criminal justice. My dreams were to become a lawyerand have the chance to help others like me escape the system. My real truelove though was always writing music and poems, the creativity behind mywords became my magnet for the girls. But I stopped writing for awhile tostart running my own sales and marketing company named JF& Partnersand the whole time I knew that I wasnt doing what I love to do and soonfigured I had to get back to it. I decided to form another corporation thistime with my long time friends or brothers named Carlos and Ray and wecall it GrindHouse Corp. Know Im back with my passion and my story,so as you read each poem just dont read it related to it, feel the pain, joy,happiness, and struggle. And by all means enjoy yourself . . . .

Until we meet again

DA STAR