#SpreadTheWord
Tired.
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Black babies wake up to generational trauma
White babies wake up to generational wealth
You tell me if we’re equal.
#SpreadTheWord
tell us what reform does…
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The fear is painted across the cracked pavement underneath our feet. How many times have we walked over dried blood without knowing?
#SpreadTheWord
Untitled: May 17th 2020 4:49
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You feel so light.
You felt heavy.
Like a baby’s laugh.
Like a laugh, when I’m nervous.
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superior To me
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Do you feel superior when the dawn breaks/or is it only when you see me/seemingly broken by the loaded words “strip search” /an unearthing of women and our resilience
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China cabinets
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Grief was a China Cabinet
And in her neighborhood
Everybody ate off plastic
Because it was safer for the children
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a letter from the girl in your 8th grade sex-ed class
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I must have missed the day
they explained my genitals
became a weapon.
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Blessed are the Meek
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White draped robes surround me—fists and hands and stones. Hot winds of dusk stroke cheeks, cracked earth caresses my bare feet.
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Brown solidarity for Black lives
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They marched on 18th street
They marched on 26th street
They marched on Division street
For Brown solidarity
With Black lives
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“Untitled”
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Dark city nights where the police lurked
years ago pledged neighborhoods with a curse
confessions coerced
the young would catch it worse
decades later and I put em in a verse
free them
see their innocence used like instruments.
#SpreadTheWord
Like any good man
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Like any good man, a black cop walks into my coffee shop
and asks for the strongest coffee we have
and assures me he wants it black.
I’m fumbling.