i want to break down or break them break in break badges break wrists black fists. but first let me remove the hashtag from in front of her name fingers trying to remember the name of the one they got this time. ain’t nothing been trendier than honey kissed corpses since #WCW. women crushed everyday. traffic stop. dirty cop. clean cop. damn spot. lights hot. “light you up” on spot off top stomach knots knees to rocks black woman. doesn’t lose herself amidst the dirt and uniform and taser gun and violence. no. finds herself five years young and in a backseat somewhere or finds herself here 28 years and smoking sinning. breathing. sinning. …
i want to
break down
or
break them
break in
break badges
break wrists
black fists.
but first
let me remove the hashtag from in front of her name
fingers
trying to remember the name of the one they got
this time.
ain’t nothing been trendier than honey kissed corpses since
#WCW.
women crushed everyday.
traffic stop.
dirty cop.
clean
cop.
damn spot.
lights hot.
“light you up”
on
spot
off top
stomach
knots
knees to rocks
black woman.
doesn’t lose herself amidst the dirt and uniform and taser gun and violence.
no.
finds herself
five years young and in a backseat
somewhere
or
finds herself
here
28 years and smoking
sinning.
breathing.
sinning.
and nothing brings death closer to a black woman’s door than her
voice.
and
nothing takes less time than a warrant for
black
death
on a road in
Texas.
and no blessing
no Miranda rights read
will find her
in the backseat.
five years young
or in the front.
28 years and alive.
black and unwilling to
surrender,
like writer’s
block,
comes
at the heaviest of
costs.
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