Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes

Hip Logic by Terrance Hayes

Author:Terrance Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-01T00:00:00+00:00


grain the only music he’d hear? Is this why

you were quiet when other poets sang

of the black man’s beauty? Is this why

you choked on the tonsil of Negro Duty?

Were there as many offices for pain

as love? Should a black man never be shy?

Was your father a mountain twenty

shovels couldn’t bury? Was he a train

leaving a lone column of smoke? Was he

a black magnolia singing at your feet?

Was he a blackjack smashed against your throat?

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My voice made them shiver;

My voice called starlings from the trees

So a farmer pried loose my teeth



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