Tag: racism

counting air keep spitting

some never leave mothers ocean
others breathe
three hundred ten million
more to share than
condolences
did you say
“and there was never a respite from the battle”
bringing my transchild
to meet your son

downtown from east baltimore at sunrise

(young moose released otm2 and opened out of the mud clothing on monument street in 2014)

positional asphyxiation

usha sings our racist war
is neuro cardio muscular toxic fatal without antidote for the attacked
from armored pits of batons and spray
here in theater we share the suffocation terror
of being stepped sat kneeled on after beaten
at a slower dosage

killing field at sunrise
(tyrone west was murdered in a struggle with police after a traffic stop in 2013 next to chinquapin run park—tawanda jones continues to speak out about police brutality and accountability)

one 800 cellular violence

oxygen honeycombs
human estuary of gas exchange
cytoplasmic veils gently vibrating
air and carbon glide through
macrophagia angle toward contagion
so we on the edge like reeds in the salty mud
breath air and music for
every second song of the universe

nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, mercury, and hydrochloric acid at sunrise
(in 2013 a massachusetts institute of technology study revealed the wheelabrator bresco trash incinerator has killed roughly eight thousand baltimore city residents since it began operating in 1985—destiny watford organized the curtis bay community to prevent an incinerator from being built there in 2016)

where is the bridge

pictures and stories are windows in walls i don’t see past
a black mirror
warm blood on skin yellow white black
someone washing away toward a vast ocean
i navigate by echo

red black yellow white at sunrise
(the reginald f lewis museum of maryland african american history and culture opened on president and pratt streets in 2005)

bioindicating

some cells are windows from outside
stacked in rows and stories
city block
building as spread sheet of data

or
people asking compromised questions
full status as persons
individuals as it
disembodied
identities fade
strenuous humanity
deleading the nation
enfeebled pseudopragmatism
power of realestatecapital like electricity mistransformed
destroying lives

institute at sunrise
(in 2001 the maryland court of appeals upheld a decision that kennedy krieger institute violated the human rights of families and children by unnecessarily exposing them to lead in order to study misguided partial abatement methods–no level of lead in their bodies is safe for children)

one half million

humans in society
cotton wool stories waver bunting flying high in wind sun rain
individual community environment
passing copper electricity
toward people palace of trust
sparrows on any flag rendered colorless

baltimore passage at sunrise
(in 2001 flag house courts, the last of our public housing high-rises, was demolished to be replaced by 338 units of housing, 20,000 sf of new and refurbished retail space, and green space, including baltimore passage at lombard and albermarle)

somenowhere

songs snow blossoms dreams
risk edge
green gold hills
unevencovered grasstrash
speedmylove

senior center at sunrise
(in 2000 many northeast residents protested settling public housing tenants in houses throughout the city, causing postponement of a hearing at the harford senior center so a larger venue could be scheduled)

blue avengers in narco federation

Mantra Missile leaps into the ring through ropes
800 pounds 4 heads 16 limbs loaded
chops handles thrusts elbows scrapes smash butts rams knees kicks
lariats palms punches sentons stomps blocks splashes clothesline drops
blue on black avenger
versus Hardened Target
shapeshifting statemorphing maelstromswirling
Mantra Missile declusters exploding
foes smitten
shreds shelled
mats covered
shrieks writhing
wasted laying
hearts unavailing
broken travailing
audience roars and crackles in fever
No Person standing

reisterstown road after sunrise
(in 1997 jeffrey alston was paralyzed by four police after a speeding stop on reisterstown road)

cirrostratus flyover

why am i in a jetplane bombs dropping
buffeted on updraft of ghosts from the fields
wings genteel rolling stolen beats
land far below golden remote
birdover cloudocean doors soaring
explosives infraready jewels to confetti
magic aluminum jeta spoiling sunshine and rain
speed bending flying stars into time
gliding near world top in heaven trip
tender joystick down through whirl wind
mind state perfect military tweaking vision
making money right
because i like my killing washed and clean

school at sunrise
(killuminati: the 7 day theory was released posthumously in 1996–tupac shakur began recording in 1987 while attending the school for the arts)