‘how long
does it take
a story
to become
a legend?
how long before
a legend
becomes
a god or
forgotten?
ask the rain
what it was
like to be the river
then ask
who it drowned.‘
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‘how long
does it take
a story
to become
a legend?
how long before
a legend
becomes
a god or
forgotten?
ask the rain
what it was
like to be the river
then ask
who it drowned.‘
pickIn love with this poet! A #blameitonlitsy read thanks to @Bertha_Mason 💜
A must read. I think most poems are also available online. Here's the link to my favorite poem (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood)
Be Prepared
for the hands, wild in your wildless hair
for the darkest toll, your double down to get half
to spread your legs while they search for drugs there
for the drug there, for their mouths to ask that big question
for the man, ecstatic with triggers
for the stampede of tiny lead beasts
for the jury not to flinch.
"Besides, / the only reason I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: // little black boy on the bus with a toy dinosaur, / his eyes wide & endless // his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there."
-"Dinosaurs in the Hood"
"think: once, a white girl // was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war. // later, up the block, Troy got shot / and that was Tuesday."
-"Short Film: ii. not an elegy for Mike Brown"
pickA chapbook of poems confronting the perils of race in contemporary America through reimagining popular films. Many of these poems appear in Don't Call Us Dead (which I read first) so I was already familiar with a lot of them, but they are still powerful and haunting.
