I will make a thread of all my public poems on my Patreon with an excerpt from them to distract me from birthing this essay:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/mad-black-girls-36960739
What do you do when there is nothing to do
but drink your own tears,
open your stomach
and stare at your intestines
how slippery and wet they are
how opaque,
What do you do when there is nothing to do
but drink your own tears,
open your stomach
and stare at your intestines
how slippery and wet they are
how opaque,
Don't Let Them Catch You At The Red Light:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/36649917
Every night is a constellation of prayers;
I kneel to her booty
a landscape of its own
a story I can't decipher but which end
still undoes me.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/36649917
Every night is a constellation of prayers;
I kneel to her booty
a landscape of its own
a story I can't decipher but which end
still undoes me.
The Negress Isn't Where We Left Her Anymore (dedicated to @Blackamazon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/35922619
They're surrounded by everything lean& bright red
but they themselves
are a maze, a labyrinth you can't neither solve
nor swallow.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/35922619
They're surrounded by everything lean& bright red
but they themselves
are a maze, a labyrinth you can't neither solve
nor swallow.
Up Late
https://www.patreon.com/posts/27245401
Why wait any longer
when you could just hold a wrist between the thumb and the forefinger,
apply pressure, then let it fly ?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/27245401
Why wait any longer
when you could just hold a wrist between the thumb and the forefinger,
apply pressure, then let it fly ?
Dancing The Electric Boogaloo (notice my titles getting worse as we go back in time)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/25557229
to knowing things with our bodies laid out
borders multiplying
making land out of all of us.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/25557229
to knowing things with our bodies laid out
borders multiplying
making land out of all of us.
And that's it for a thread of my public poems folks. I actually have to finish this essay, select songs to analyze (notice I say analyze not critique because I haven't deluded myself into thinking I'm a music critic yet) but I hope you DO read and delight at the poems.