Archive (Page 8) • The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael

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2023-08-13 I know the stories of our loss
2023-08-06 it is just as wrong, or even more, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
2023-07-30 Most likely, you think we hated the elephant, /
2023-07-23 Let them say, as they must say something: /
2023-07-16 muffled our laughter / lowered our voices / let out our hems / dekinked our hair
2023-07-09 We are strange / and unbelonging.
2023-07-02 a concrete jungle drum can’t play no calypso
2023-06-25 And if sun comes / How shall we greet him?
2023-06-18 Do not go gentle into that good night.
2023-06-11 Embrace. / Grow flowers with your lungs
2023-06-04 emigration is never an election issue
2023-05-28 Stars are great drops / Of golden dew.
2023-05-21 Whatever / what is is is what / I want.
2023-05-14 now I start to understand her love
2023-05-07 Because white men can’t / police their imagination / black men are dying.
2023-04-30 This rain. / The blues gone gray / and yellow
2023-04-23 The recent buds relax and spread, / Their greenness is a kind of grief.
2023-04-16 There are no curses—only mirrors
2023-04-09 So many of us are breathless, / you know, like me
2023-04-02 There are no good kings. / Only beautiful palaces.

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