YOUTH NOW

“I Knew I Was Being Watched, and People Were Waiting for Me to Fall”

A hustler’s notes on growing up too fast, and not growing up at all

Emon Lauren Black
GEN
Published in
5 min readSep 12, 2018

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Illustration: Austin MacDonald

“I thought you was older. So mature for your age.”

— General Adults

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Emon Lauren Black
GEN
Writer for

queer, scorpio, poet, playwright from souf/west side of Chicago. no fuck shit. Chicago’s first Youth Poet Laureate. “COMMANDO” published by Haymarket Fall 2017.