Friday, February 26, 2021

[poems] homie - Danez Smith 2020

 

[I loved most of the poems in this collection. Danez Smith is such a gem. Where I've found versions of the poems online, they are hyperlinked. Sometimes they are different versions from what's printed in this collection.]

Poems: 

in lieu of a poem, i'd like to say

sometimes i wish i felt the side effects

    "you stare at fangs long enough, even fangs pink with your own blood look soft."

say it with your whole black mouth 

white niggas

what was said on the bus stop

i didn't like you when i met you

    "it was just my reflection i couldn't stand. i saw it. the way you would break me into a better me."

ii. ending with nothing

    "i counted the things used to end a boy but forgot the boy himself."

undectectable

    "i am the most important species in my body."

C.R.E.A.M.

happy hour

    "sometimes with nothing to say, just to sit on the phone & be alive together for a while"

my poems

trees!

my nig

    "there is already so much trying to end us so let it not include our hands today, let us not be dead"

acknowledgements

    "& how many times have you loved me without my asking? how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? including me"

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