salt. by waheed nayyirah

Author:waheed, nayyirah [waheed, nayyirah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2013-10-17T00:00:00+00:00

the worst

thing that ever happened

to

the world

was

the white man coming across gun powder.

–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

soon

the moon will come from my lips

and

you will not remember your name.

–– oshún

there is a phantom language in my mouth.

a tongue beneath my tongue.

will i ever

remember what

i sound

like.

will i ever come home.

–– african american i

i lost a whole continent.

a whole continent from my memory.

unlike all other hyphenated americans

my hyphen is made of blood. feces. bone.

when africa says hello

my mouth is a heartbreak

because i have nothing in my tongue

to answer her.

i do not know how to say hello to my mother.

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