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BACK OF THE ENVELOPE my people die like a poisson process. i listen to the rain count bodies BACK OF THE ENVELOPE why must they demand black bodies self-sacrifice in ultraviolet? that is, why must we give all of us to them until we have nothing left?
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a black nerd’s poisson processing
while the thunder weeps with me.
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Lena Blackmon
Lena Blackmon (they/she) is from Tucson, Arizona by way of Trinidad and Tobago. Their work has been featured in STATIC, the Visible Poetry Project, as well as Rookie on Love. They were named a 2018 VONA fellow and are an alumnus from the Stanford Spoken Word Collective.
