It's Sista Azizi writing to you. I know you would rather hear from one of those hangin partners of yours or those women friends of yours but its me you hearing from now. And I have a thing or two to say to you and I'm fired up to say it. So you'd better listen up.
The other day I heard some man who CALLS himself a friend of yours say that you and your baby brother Donny were in doing hard time. And I told the other sisters "This can't be true. This can't be the Shaney and Donny we know. Why they're GOOD boys! They would never even THINK of stealing a school bus! And stealing beer! And drinking it and carousing in the streets naked in their birthday suits. Was that part true? You know how rumors get around...
But some of this MUST be true cause you sitting in jail now and I hear tell you gonna be in there for a while??
I guess everything I heard was true. And all along when I was defending your name and saying that can't be OUR Shane. That can't be OUR little Donny... And I feel liks such a fool 'cause I went on record sayin that OUR Shaney and little DOnny would NEVER do such things like THAT. But you did do it.. didn't you???
What got it to you, boy???! Besides the beer I mean? And don't think I'm joking with you Shane boy, cause you know me and you know I NEVER joke.
Since I was one of the first sistas to defend your name, I figured that I better be one of the first to tell you that you should be ASHAMED of yourself. ASHAMED from the hair on your head down to the toes on your feet.
I hope you got a Bible in there Shaney and that you're reading it. 'Cause it's clear that somehow somewhere someway you got off the righteous path. And when you got of that path you took your baby brother right along with you.
But both of you are young and got time to make up for the error of your ways. And you got a lot of errors to make up for since you was drunk as a skunk running around in your birthday suit out in the public streets with your unmentionables flappin in the wind .
I can't even think about it. It's a terrible thing such a terrible thing to have seen. Not that I was there to see it.
So here's the question I ahve for you, Shaney. What are you going to do while you are in that JAIL to make sure you will never land up in there again?
I won't be coming to see you and none of the church sisters either. But they wanted me to say that we expect you to use this time doin more than just sittin in their twiddling your thumbs.
You should be thinking about what you need to do to get it right when you come out of there. 'Cause there's alot you have to do different. A LOT. You know I'm tellin you the truth, boy. And I'm tellin you this for your own good.
So if you in there sittin there doin something else you are wastin your time.
I pray for you every day Shane. I pray for Donny too. But my heart can only stand to write one of these letters so you tell him hat i'm saying to you 'cause it goes for him too. .
Pray without ceasing. Cleanse your mind. Think only good thoughts thoughts. Do only good deeds. That's how you were raised.
I expect you to remember that you hear? I expect you to do the right thing!
That's all I'm gonna say. You won't hear from me again until you and your brother are out of that terrible place.
And they say that terrible things go on in there..But I can't even THINK about it cause it would send chills up my spine... I can't even IMAGINE what it's like.
You take care of yourself now, Shaney boy.
Remember, think good thoughts and good will come to you.