Five and None
the people in town said animalistic, but there’s nothing animal about a gun.
the people in town said animalistic, but there’s nothing animal about a gun.
They were going where gold could be picked out of a stream.
"I won’t deny it, I’m a straight ridah, you don’t wanna fuck with me."
a place where the smoke was thicker than chocolate tapioca pudding
black momma intercoms the ancestors
dirt under nails and foot
I watch them watch me
We use painkillers even though
they won’t still the pain of living.
That wind has ceased to blow in me.