March 9th

Today I am going back to the "egg" reference.  Yusef refers to the egg in lines ten and twelve.  I wonder if the speaker and his brothers are actually stealing eggs from a"hawks"nest or does it refer to something else.  Is the egg suppose to make a reference to birth, or to the youthfulness, of the speaker and his brothers? I really have no idea at this point.  Literally I think the lines do refer to the brothers stealing eggs from a bird, but I do not think that is the message the author is trying to send to the reader.  For now I am thinking he just wants us to see that the boys are up to no good, but I will read more into it in the future.