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FIRE- JASMINE MANS
I’ve lost all my favorite toys
Bleaches my favorite browns
And stained my only whites
I like suffering
And suffocating
My tears know patterns on my face
They are not yet ready to unlearn
Sometimes my scars cough dirt from their lungs
my stitches be unraveling
I don’t know if my skin was made
For getting comfortable with
I don’t know if grows old
Or soften in sunsets
My mirrors know their place
My place hasn’t been shaved
Or apologized to since last vacant
Tell me?
What do you want with my ashes?
My hair
My hip bones,
My breast?
My bones marrow??
Speak to me of your barbaric fascination with my skin?
How much am I worth
In your sheets,
On our alter,
Atop of your auction block?
What do you think will happen
When you set the black girl on fire?
Her ashes will decorate the lungs of all the men
who tried to take her from herself
soot will pour from their mouths
and we will watch them choke
Maybe we’ll call me karma
After how I revive myself
After the moment you realized
your shadow
was merely the spirit of a black girl
That lingers in your distance
to remind you of how the fuck you got here
today you are in the hunted and the haunted
I will prance in your darkness
I will be big and masterful in my arrival
Swift in my exit
I will glow
bare fangs
leave blood trial
I am the black girl you cannot kill
Oh what a thought?
What a bold
Handsome thought
Of the woman
Whose only supposed to speak
When spoken to
A dare in the face the righteous man
Greet me
Take my bags
Welcome me home
Get used to me
I am your mother’s sister
On her father’s side
I’m sure she never mentioned me
You can find the resemblance
In the collard greens
And if you so want to see a fire
Flesh running on fire
Be it at your own will
Be it your flesh
Be it your bones
Your bones
You will notice how sacrifice comes with a stench
You’ll have to pass down to your children
It will be
The tallest ta,e for them
To stomach
It will be the stench on your own kin
It will be poetic and colorful
Something to remember
Always
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Poet- Jasmine Mans
Poem- Fire
Director- Curtis Taylor
Production Team- Castle of Dreams
PA- Yesenia Torres
All Rights Reserves Jasmine Mans 2016 ©
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