The giant’s blue eye feels

Today the world sees black Today the world picks up a crying Black girl  by her braids and drags her through the street  Instead of pain, her body decides to be:  A goodbye kiss A

JAZMYNE KENNEY / THE TEMPLE NEWS

Today the world sees black

Today the world picks up a crying Black girl 

by her braids and drags her through the street 

Instead of pain, her body decides to be: 

A goodbye kiss

A wedding train of silk over

A flower petal over pond water 

Today all the streets are renamed every color but black 

Another murder on red 

Another protest along yellow 

Another girl last seen on fuchsia 

Today the world took back all its language 

Claimed not one God or one country

Remade itself a spiral

laughed at how we all thought we were brilliant once 

A girl wakes on this new

nobody land and finally understands the world’s choice 

in its divorce from circular infinity 

Today the world calls itself a disaster and nobody cares

Nobody calls its mother and tells her

her child gave up on itself today 

Today the world sits in a starving neighborhood’s classroom 

and learns nothing 

Today the world goes hungry and we satirize its skeleton 

Pick over its carcass like flies and wear its bones as jewelry 

Today the world says it hates itself and a generation of black kiss their teeth 

Today the world sees a rainbow and mistakes it for unity 

Confuses a family for pawns and their home for a war-torn chess board 

Forgets to name its oceans bridges and its borders irrelevant 

Today the world converts itself into a book the height of the sky 

Every turn of the page the same black 

Bolded words 

Reads:

It hurts 

It hurts 

It hurts 

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