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I grew up either
or around at all

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times military installations,
and this is a poem about that.

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"If skin passes always
through language,

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texture is compelled by desire.

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If one scholar writes the
length of an afternoon,

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then morning opens our
chest to another science.

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Delicately scaled.

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Veined in silence.

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I rest my head on the frame
of a burning question.

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And the future bends down
from its fine grained neck,

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breathing.

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The dominant orientation
is based in devotion.

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The geography devoted
disfigures each wrist.

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Veins negotiate a well-marbled
music of territory.

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Militant routes open to the
half drawn beauty of corridors

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where the governing image
branches with light.

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Devastating.

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Light passes through
a moment which

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doesn't mean the moment ends.

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The moment continues
with clarity.

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We therefore will call
our transformations

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darkness, the proposals
for which being precise

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and drawn toward the heart.

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I release a trigger and
rounds emerge, pale wounds

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from the berm.

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Even this sound of
valley impresses.

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Even the futures of
thorned perennials

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bend, always underneath it.

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I want language for what the
government did to my body.

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The officers watched
lengths of our street.

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Our legs were barely
covered, our streets

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closed and opened to frame the
process of intimate regard.

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Arousing, delicately lobed.

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Bare repulsion blossoming
anything you might ask for.

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We studied the houses from
their ugly numbered orifices,

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the same in Panama, Kentucky
as no contractor ever

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had another idea.

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Hypothetically,
I raised my hand.

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A bruise redrawn.

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Withdrawn from the
door jammed with heat.

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Heat of a particular
style forced open.

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Devastating.

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The hanging weight.

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Concerts of landlessness
rehearsed and lesioned blooms.

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Their fruit never
fully introduced.

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Listen to the territory
open, the bright hot door.

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Daily we waited at the
barricaded roads, roads.

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The tinted glass of
half drawn windows,

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having always to be reminded, if
you don't stop smiling, I swear,

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we watch for the forms through
which understanding passed,

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proxy to the conditions
from which it

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emerged, drawing intelligence.

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Such a simple thing.

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Every story holds a collective
body, amorously or otherwise.

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The name lost arrives
under the knees of an idea.

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No, we're going
to do it this way.

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We're going to fill our lungs
up with the darkest juice,

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walking to the corner store on
behalf of so-and-so drenched

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in possibility.

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We shaded our curious faces.

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The increasing aftermath
of repulsion is arrival.

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Is a third party
contract and every nigga

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left holding the bag.

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One impression
restrained, another

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will assume the terminal point.

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When we reference this
hour, it holds no reward.

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Nor does it face away.

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The fibrous connective
tissue mounts:

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Our eyes nearly
covered, our legs cold,

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we woke with the
straightforwardness

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of being Black regardless
of what happened after.

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The order's warm retching fever
of-- it is how scale emerges.

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If a sentence passes
always through landscape

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and that landscape is not
vacant, texture by this sentence

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forms a discursive core.

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Psychologically,
physiologically.

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This scar along my thigh.

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And from being
broken, a science.

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This murderous clarity
we cannot withstand.

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Listen how the officers have
paused for the territory

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to arrive.

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The darker the berry, the
longer there is to wait."

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