Dear Babylon,
In the constant lutte to not become that bougie housewife of an athlete taking too much oxy while the help cooks ethical fried chicken for my family and I’m also the help and the television sighs and wags in the back some Wendy Williams rerun and this is acceptable and celebrating neon israel and soul is so radio : I walk alone. I know myself. Or so I chant in the mirror right around discovering that trap music is all the new negro spiritual / righteous delirium try to defund the clown in the en in negro say it a little less enter the New Yorker in Desdemona’s scarf and be this generative productive whistle blower for the radicals / coal at the root of slow kill and not scream at the Salvadorian man with the leaf blower in my landscape and hide him and his hoes when the ICE raid follows and swallow mister PCs pcp , in this constant creaseless / as in iron willed / as in willow weep for me / effort to love my enemy I became him The body of me. Its erotic disbelief temporarily suspended . alongside the American eagle : temptation to define freedom as consumerism, justice as my right to an object in a special whites only window : see that seedless eagle run the heavens so : suspended and hovering over my own safe house and spraying it with liquid hog manure literally. Check WikiLeaks. Assange looks like a creep but he saves everybody but himself so he must be. Negro do you wanna be that creepy?
Source: Poetry (October 2017)