Don't call us dead: poems

Summer, somewhere 3 --

Dear white America 25 --

Dinosaurs in the hood 26 --

It won't be a bullet 28 --

Last summer of innocence 29 --

A note on Vaseline 31 --

A note on the phone app that tells me how far i am from other men's mouths 32 --

& even the black guy's profile reads sorry, no black guys 33 --

O nigga O 34 --

... nigga 35 --

Bare 37 --

Seroconversion 38 --

Fear of needles 40 --

Recklessly 41 --

Elegy with pixels & cum 48 --

Litany with blood all over 49 --

It began right here 55 --

Crown 56 --

Blood hangover 60 --

1 in 2 61 --

Every day is a funeral & a miracle 64 --

Not an elegy 67 --

A note on the body 72 --

You're dead, America 75 --

Strange dowry 78 --

Tonight, in Oakland 79 --

Little prayer 81 --

Dream where every black person is standing by the ocean 82.