Don't Call Us Dead: Poems

by Danez Smith

paradise is a world where everything is sanctuary & nothing is a gun.

the prettiest fish are poisonous & same is true for men

i don’t doubt that anything is possible in a place where you can burn a body with less outrage than a flag

you have all you need to be a hero don’t save the world, save yourself

but you live oh, you live everyday you wake you raise the dead everything you do is a miracle