Loshay Jergins is a 15 year old run away who got caught up in the drug dealing business being introduced by her boyfriend at the time Tommy. After a horrible situation she got into the prostitution business. Her pimp and the time told "Nice throat"(Loashay nick name) to not use condoms and ended up have a kid at 16...
The poem Scare Not Wounds talks about the pain and suffrage that happened to the black( meaning slavery). Although there's no slavery today , the pain they went through is not forgotten and has become a scare to the generations to come.
This poem is about the phases of being a poet and what it's like to talk about some of the touchy subjects that we as poets feel we need to write about in order to be heard.