Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall

Author:Nate Marshall [Marshall, Nate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822981084
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Chicago high school love letters

spring break

214.

i know all the museum

free days by heart. you

the exhibit i steal touch

from in shadow.

226.

i’ll stay with you.

even after

the streetlights come

on or don’t.

prelude

he must’ve moved out

the neighborhood when i was little.

i bet he could ball,

probably could dunk.

maybe he rap now.

maybe he is the boy on every wall.

we ain’t got graffiti over here

like for real art stuff but maybe

in the ’80s he was optimistic. this was his all

city attempt all over the hood.

maybe he ain’t a he.

in the time before the Folks

Nation ran everything over here

maybe the presiding clique was RIP.

i see it everywhere:

RIP Pierre

RIP Bird

RIP D

RIP Man Man

maybe RIP is a girl.

i see her name next to all

the bad boys. all the big boys

my mama told me not to fool with.

maybe she’s all they girlfriends

at once. but they all

gone. no wonder

she keep finding new boys

to kiss.

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