Danez Smith - how many of us have them?

friends! if i may interrupt right quick

 

i know y’all working, busy smoking & busy

trying not to smoke, busy with the kids & moms

 

& busy with alone, but i have just seen

two boys — yes, black — on bikes — also — summer children

basketball shorts & they outside shoes, wild

 

laughing bout something i couldn’t hear

over my own holler, trying to steady

the wheel & not hit they asses as they swerved

frienddrunk, making their little loops, sun-lotioned

 

faces screwed up wit...