This poem is about seven kids who ditch school, stay out late, and do all kinds of bad things to mess up their future. The whole point of the poem is these kids think they are so cool, but they’ll die sooner because they are being stupid and taking life-threatening risks. When it says “we Jazz June”, I think it means they lie, a lot. They “lurk late”, stay out really late into the night. They “sing sin”, they live for being bad. But in the end, “We die soon”; their stupid decisions will get them killed.
I think this poem is narrated by one of the seven kids who finally realized how messed up they were getting. I think the rhythm of the poem is like a rap or song, very R&B/Hip Hop. This probably took place in a bad part of a city where it’s normal/cool for kids to skip school, but they end up just skipping out on their future. Also, this paints a very cliché picture of kids messing around in high school, or school in general, and then having to deal with the consequences, sometimes the consequences being death. This poem is a life lesson to all kids to don’t mess around with life because you only got one life to live.
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