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Author: Mark Anthony
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into when I first walked into the church.
    â€œYo . . . I cried, Sabine,” I said with a slight smile on my face.
    â€œIt’s all right, baby. There’s nothing wrong with that.”
    â€œYeah, there isn’t,” I said after I thought for a moment. “Sabine, I can’t watch them put Richie into the ground. I just can’t watch that!”
    â€œIt’ll be all right, Mark,” Sabine reassured me, calling me by my real name. “I’ll be with you.”
    Again I started to cry as Sabine gestured for my hand and helped me out of the limo. Together we walked across the grass and toward the spot where everyone was standing. A cemetery service was taking place for Richie.
    Since it was still drizzling from earlier, everyone was forced to stand under this tent. The coffin was decorated with all types of flowers. A few people spoke and then I realized that they weren’t going to put Richie into the ground right away, at least not until all of the rain had completely stopped. The electrical equipment which was used to lower the coffin into the ground might have gotten wet and caused problems.
    As everyone started to disperse back to their cars, I took one more long look at the coffin, shook my head, and turned to walk back to the limo. Once inside the limo, I started to panic. Yo, I forgot to write Richie a poem, I thought. I didn’t have the time to write what I wanted to write and what I had promised myself that I would write, but I asked Sabine for a piece of tissue and a pen, and then I scribbled this poem:

    To Richie
    Look into the world Tell me what you see. Maybe you see hope Maybe you see me. I certainly see fear I certainly see despair,
    Despair is sure to be me. Definite is hope, Hope waiting to be set free. I know the better of these But which one will I find? Maybe just maybe it’ll be hope.
    Only if you help me, Richie, Help me find the grace of God.
    Love Mark

    I got out of the limo and ran back over to the gravesite. I tossed the piece of tissue and I watched it softly float to the spot where the casket would be set into the ground. That way it would be waiting for Richie when he got there. I looked at the coffin one last time.
    â€œRichie, you’re with God now,” I said. “So don’t worry about a thing. You’ll be a’ight. We love you.” Then I yelled as loudly as I could, “Fourth crew!” as I jogged back jogged back to the limo.
    The limo ride back home was slow because it started to rain very hard. It was raining about as hard as it did on the night Richie was killed. I remember thinking how it was a good thing that it had rained on the night Richie was murdered, simply because the rain helped to wash away the blood stains that were left on the concrete from Richie’s wound.

Fourth Crew
    The funeral was finally over. I’d taken off my suit and I put on my baggy jeans along with my high-top green and white Nike Airs. I then placed my gold caps into my mouth and I clipped my beeper to my pants.
    â€œPaula! Paula! If Ma is looking for me, let her know that I’ll probably be at Randy’s house, or I might still be over Richie’s crib eating dinner, a’ight?”
    â€œOK, be careful,” my sister hollered back as she told me that she would be dropping by as well.
    With that, I walked across the street to Randy’s house and knocked on his door. I called out for him to come open the door. Randy had been slow at everything he’d ever done in his entire life, so finally, after about five minutes of knocking, he opened the door for me.
    â€œYo, man, you ain’t change your clothes yet?” I asked as I followed him into his basement. Randy still had the same clothes on that he’d worn to the funeral.
    â€œYo, hurry up, man! Everybody’s already at Richie’s house. His family cooked dinner for us. We gotta bounce.”As Randy switched outfits we started kickin’ it

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