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Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.
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A quiet snowglobe of pain I want to shake. While the flakes fall like ash we race the train to reach the place Emmett Till last whistled or smiled or did nothing.
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The apocalypse sounds like this-- black men breaking in to steal back the thing once stole from them.
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There are gods of fertility, corn, childbirth, & police brutality--this last is offered praise & sacrifice near weekly & still cannot be sated
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How I wish I could leave or forget all my dead.
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Like grass in rain, my dead grow at an amazing rate.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die to get there.
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A shack made of ribs. A house made of out. A car made of rust. A smile made of doubt.
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It's death there is no cure for-- life the long disease. If we're lucky. Otherwise, short trip beyond. And below.
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