Jericho Brown - Hustle

They lie like stones and dare not shift. Even asleep, everyone hears in prison.

Dwayne Betts deserves more than this dry ink for his teenage years in prison.

 

In the film we keep watching, Nina takes Darius to a steppers ball. 

Lovers hustle, slide, and dip as if none of them has a brother in prison.

 

I eat with humans who think any book full of black characters is about race. 

A book full of white characters examines insanity—but never in prison.

 

His whole family made a barricade of thei...