POETRY

zaddy

By BRITTENEY BLACK ROSE KAPRI | 07 MAR 2018

By Viviane Sassen — Phone, Courtesy of Kevin Schoenmakers

he bends me over and asks me to call him daddy so i say who? or blocked
number. or yeah, i understand, next time. you say i have daddy issues. so,
it’s tuesday and i still want to be loved. and sometimes love is a call two days after
your birthday with a promise you know can’t be kept. but it feels good
that he’s still trying. that you’ve learned to wrap yourself in his good intentions
and lull yourself to sleep. i keep telling myself i don’t want men anything like my father
but the last four dudes i’ve taken seriously have been libras and sometimes they forget
to text or show up. and if that’s not a daddy than i don’t know what is.

Britteney Black Rose Kapri is a teaching artist, writer, performance poet and playwright based out of Chicago. A former ensemble member and teaching artist for the Hip Hop Theater nonprofit Kuumba Lynx. Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors. She is a staff member and writer for Black Nerd Problems. Her first chapbook titled “Winona and Winthrop” was published in June of 2014 through New School Poetics. She has also been published in Poetry Magazine, Vinyl, Day One, Seven Scribes and Kinfolks Quarterly. She is a 2015 Rona Jaffe Writers Award Recipient.

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