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My Tongue Fell Out and I Started to Lie
They taught me how to wade, but they never taught me how to swim. I drowned on my way to shore. My ocean of lies swallowed me whole.
#SpreadTheWord
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tell us what reform does…
The fear is painted across the cracked pavement underneath our feet. How many times have we walked over dried blood without knowing?
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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
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
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
I must have missed the day
they explained my genitals
became a weapon.
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Blessed are the Meek
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
They marched on 18th street
They marched on 26th street
They marched on Division street
For Brown solidarity
With Black lives