Status Updates From Poor

“My people, my poor people, my browner people, my other people who are not seen as people, they do not inspire moral shame in those who govern this place, this is a song I have come to know too well.”

Okay I am just flying through this. May be the most incredible poetry book I’ve ever read. Like just incredible storytelling, imagery. I simply bow to this level of poetry writing sooooo good.

“You’ll be four minutes from your home when you are cornered by an officer who will tell you of a robbery, forty minutes ago in the area. You fit the description of a man? —You laugh. Thirteen, you’ll tell him: you’re thirteen.” Heavy but beautiful poetry book. And the pictures are so cool.