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My mother taught each one of usto prayas soon as we could talkand every Halloweento comfort usbefore she went to workmy mother cooked fresh pumpkin with brown sugarand placing penny candles in our windowsshe said her yearly prayersfor all our…
God of my father discovered at midnightmy mother asleep on her thundersmy fatherreturning at midnightout of tightening circles of angerout of days’ punishmentthe inelegant safety of powerNow midnight empties your house of bravadoand passion sleeps like a mistoutside desireyour strength…
When the man is busymaking niggersit doesn’t mattermuchwhat shadeyou are. If he runs out of oneparticular colorhe can always switchto sizeand when he’s finishedoff the big oneshe’ll just changeto sexwhich isafter allwhere it all began.
I came to their whiteterror firstthe nuns with their ghostly motiveshidden in blackmotionlessyet always upon us before we sinnedalways knowingand smilingsadly. Was it the neat sample loavesof stale Silvercup breadand lukewarm milkdoled out in the chalky afternoonsor the threat of…
Either heard or taughtas girlswe thoughtthat skinny was funnyor a little bitsillyand feeling a pulltoward the large and the colorfulI would joke youwhenyou grew too thin. But your new kind of hungermakes me chillylike dangerfor I see you forever retreatingshrinkinginto…
Since Naturally Black is Naturally Beautiful I must be proudand, naturally,Black and Beautifulwho always was a trifleyellowand plainthough proud before.So I’ve given up pomadeshaving spent the summer sunning and feeling naturally free(and if I die of skin cancer oh well—one…
There is a strange man attached to my backbonewho thinks he can sap me or break meif he bleaches out my son my water my fireif he confuses my tongue by shitting his symbolsinto my words. Every day I walk…
Little sister, not all blackpeople are all readypeopleare not always blackpeoplefinding themselves closeto how they seethemselvesbeing most important. I see your friends areyoung skinny girls sometimestall sometimes slight sometimesbeige and neutral or mean or honest or weaksometimes warm sometimes even…
I am supposed to sayit doesn’t matter look me up sometime when you’re in my neighborhoodneedinga drink or some books good talka quick dip before lunch—but I never was onefor losingwhat I couldn’t affordfrom the beginningyour richness made my heartburn…
From a Phone Booth on BroadwaySome time turns inside out and the whole day collapses into a desperate searchfor a telephone booth that worksfor quick quick I must call youwho has not spoken inside my headfor over a yearbut now…