194 Racism and discrimination poems

1    Kinship: Is embarrassing the wind, Like dead black boys, Falling down from the trees, Then downstream– On their knees, Blood like, Like a rich nation. 2    Metaphor: Becomes humiliating, And clean, Ticking like a ripe machine. Do not Bend, Fold, Or mutilate me– This is your future speaking. 3    The air smells so metaphysical We have accused it– Of smog, And lost manhood, Then all ritual. 4    Whoever wrote: A view is a mountain speaking But left the introduction For the snow, And accused silence Of its soul. 5    The whole nation: Is a stanza of blackness, A huge white whale, Faith in space (Like the newspapers), And the quiet insistence We have peace, And it’s your world, brother.

To my white friends who get it: good now tell the other ones i'm tired of explaining what you already understand

The kind of invisible where everyone can see you but no one is looking the kind of invisible that makes you loud just to prove you exist

not again the headline again the name again the video i will not watch again but will know about will carry like all the other names i was not supposed to have to carry