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Aster(ix) Journal

Two Poems

Rosamond S. King
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January 9, 2017

 

Oops!

 

Careful we have to be

: Opening the door

, Getting our wallets

, Playing in a park

, Switching lanes

Can be fatal

.Ask? There is no ask

.Try? There is no try

.There is only shoot

.Accidental slaughter

Is an epidemic

In the abattoir

And on the rez

 

 

 

 

REPARATIONS

 

 

see                                         through                                               people!

on sale today!

35 year old                boys                                       and girls

breeding boys

                        to lighten your race

breeding girls

                        for fun and profit

backs bent every morning

legs open every night

see                                         through                                               people!

cheap!

 

 

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Rosamond S. King

Rosamond S. King is a creative and critical writer, performer, and artist whose work is deeply informed by her cultures and communities, by history, and by a sense of play. Her poetry has appeared in more than two dozen journals and anthologies, and her manuscript Rock|Salt|Stone is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. King has performed in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and throughout North America. She is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College and author of the award- winning scholarly book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination. Her goal is to make people feel, wonder, and think, in that order.

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