Uptown

The streets felt like home because I was my only home
and they were mean to me and I was mean to myself
I studied.
We laughed with teeth out.
The buildings sang.

To say we did not feel was like
saying we deserved to die.
People said we deserved to die.

But her n*****s were my feminine experience.
She bit at my neck like I was cloudless.
I felt God in n*****s,
And to say I was not spiritual was like
saying I deserved to die and maybe I did,
because God is not real but
two mouths on each other's salt is.

To say I was like the ocean in my youth
was like saying I deserved to live.

Maybe I deserved to live.

Reviews

[isus]

this so good, i like it very much :D i enjoyed reading

[—-]

Truly wonderful, poetic and expressive. The second half of the poem just takes off. So unique and real yet surreal and dignified yet sexual and seductive. Really captivating read!