A Fortune for Your Disaster by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: Tin House Books

HOW CAN BLACK PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT FLOWERS AT A TIME LIKE THIS

but if you’ll indulge / my worst impulses / isn’t it funny / how the white / petals of the oleander / do not render the crow / flightless / upon being swallowed / and yet / the human body / crumbles under the weight / of their softness / by funny / you may think the joke / is about the black / thing consuming a bouquet of white / ness / without falling / from the sky / in droves / but by funny I mean / I am adorning my fingertips / with white petals / and running a thumb / along the edges / of your mouth / agape with a rapturous / desire / to hoard desire is one way / of becoming a fiend / my homie / peddled white / to fiends who / took the white / peddled / into themselves / and some / did not survive / but some / I imagine / grew brief / black wings / having never felt it / I will still wish upon you / the feeling of knowing / exactly where your next high / will be born from / I do not define / the distance between sinning / and deliverance / I pedaled the white / bike / downtown / on a Tuesday / the homie got 15 / for hoarding the white / he had yet to peddle / inside of a suitcase / his mother cried / inside of the courtroom / mad / perhaps / with the sudden descent / of feathers

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