Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
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they’ve made you a boy i don’t know replaced my friend with a hashtag.
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dinosaurs in the hood let’s make a movie called Dinosaurs in the Hood. Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness. there should be a scene where a little black boy is playing with a toy dinosaur on the bus, then looks out the window & sees the T. rex, because there has to be a T. rex. don’t let Tarantino direct this. in his version, the boy plays with a gun, the metaphor: black boys toy with their own lives the foreshadow to his end, the spitting image of his father. nah, the kid has a plastic brontosaurus or triceratops & this is his proof of magic or God or Santa. i want a ...more
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love let me burn if it means you & i have one night with no barrier but skin.
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& what remains left for unparticular birds.
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- a love story - he came/over & then he left but he stayed
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reader, what does it feel like to be safe? white?
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this is your hardest scene when you think the whole sad thing might end but you live oh,      you live everyday you wake you raise the dead everything you do is a miracle
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little prayer let ruin end here let him find honey where there was once a slaughter let him enter the lion’s cage & find a field of lilacs let this be the healing & if not    let it be