Boogie Man

When I was young and misbehaved my mother said, “The Boogie Man will get you.”

As I grew and got in trouble still my mother said, “The Boogie Man will get you.”

I never listened, so who cares, what your parents said.
I stole, I lied, I drank, I cussed my mother out, and then one night I was arrested.

That night, my first time, in jail there was a riot and I was stabbed three times.

That night I met the Boogie Man, but my mom should have told me that he lived in Hell.

Author's Note

creative writing class in high school