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The Black Professor on Vesey to an All White Audience

The Black Professor on Vesey to an All White Audience

She speaks, knows how To handle A microphone just right that can fuss And spit about the present and history. She’s a glass of water that..

October 11, 2012
Affixed in Immorality

Affixed in Immorality

I do not believe in your sanctity. Even though I gave it to you. On my knees. In the wavering breath of our very first dawn. What a..

October 11, 2012
Return to the Violent Mind

Return to the Violent Mind

I am my own razor-blade dream. Slicing. Stripes of bleeding dark across my life. And I know it’s deadly. Dangerous. But it’s automatic…

October 11, 2012
The Doctrine of Might

The Doctrine of Might

Stars are glass. They shatter. Too easily in your eyes. When we touch. My hands come away. Bloody. And stuck with the pain. Of pieces..

October 11, 2012
Odd Addoration

Odd Addoration

It’s strange that there’s nothing strange to a child about a fearless Italian with a strong-man mustache wearing overalls and a red..

October 11, 2012
frigid

frigid

cold-natured hard to thaw ice water in your veins all monikers he placed on me but it was   his touch   that started winter storm to..

October 11, 2012
Bitch

Bitch

Sometimes I bark and growl and Snarl and bare my teeth I pull hard on the chains You have tied me down with In order to domesticate me I..

October 11, 2012
dry bones

dry bones

like dry bones in the valley you left me for dead but i was my own ezekiel i asked myself can these bones live i didn’t know the answer..

October 11, 2012

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