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Saturday, October 9, 2021

Harryette Mullen

 

[up from slobbery]


up from slobbery 
hip hyperbole 
the soles of black feet 
beat down back streets 


a Yankee porkchop 
for your knife and fork 
your fill of freedom 
in Philmeyork 


never trouble rupture 
urban space fluctuates 
gentrify the infrastructure 
feel up vacant spades 


no moors steady whores 
studs warn no mares 
blurred rubble slew of vowels 
stutter war no more 

Written by Harryette Mullen

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