the sacred and the propane

오늘의 진부한 경구: 아름다움만큼 숭고함은 근본적으로 멍청한 것 같다.

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— “Quickie,” B. Knott

So the verticality begins.

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white tears icicle gold plains of her face

“The Mothering Blackness,” M. Angelou

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Is it Peter jangling Heaven’s keys?–

“Who Is That A-Walking in the Corn?,” F. Johnson

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men’s rights charity concert.

“I.R.L.,” C. Tse

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smack that clap clap clap like you don’t care (I know you care)

“7/11,” B. Knowles

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I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.

“America,” C. McKay

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“The wooing kestrel,” I said, “mutes his mating-note

“Translation,” A. Spencer

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fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.

“Frederick Douglass,” R. Hayden

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Worked into meat, to grow

“Anger,” Y. Komunyakaa

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I know you’re crazy ‘bout your cherry pie but you can’t two-time me

“Cherry Picking Blues,” I. Cox

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selves, evidently. eventually, we were upside

(untitled sonnet: “we didn’t get here by ourselves. black takes”), S. Harney and F. Moten

Sorry the full thing is paywalled. I have a PDF if you message me.

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Significance.  Superstition saw

Cane, J. Toomer

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my eyes are always hungry

“Afterimages,” A. Lorde

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understand, and scream to, in some wild fit of acknowledged Godliness.

“History as Process,” A. Baraka

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Can I wash your hair

“Narrative: Ali,” E. Alexander

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Like play ng a ch lkboard on a t rntable

“Save Me,” Monika

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This is a POEM!

Paterson, W.C. Williams