(Jerry Quickley)

Dear Demetrius

I have never seen water this beautiful

They are going to make us go back

And clear those villages tomorrow

Sergeant makes them stand in the tide pools, then he...

Sharks feed on blood and sin

You could almost use their backs to walk across the bay

My brother, I miss you and home in the worst way

Guano and salt water and I'm so thirsty

I miss you and home in the worst way

Heather Pyre, Viola the User, Clyde Hannibal, Jimmy Jackson, Reverend Jamеs Reeb, Juliet Hampton Morning

Jonathan Merrick Daniels, Vеrnon Donald, Reverend George Lee

O'Neil Warren, Harry and Harriet Norman

The n**** from down the street who ran to get my father but the police grabbed me when i was nine

DJ Renegade, Patricia Smith

King Thirty three and a third kicking out the jams on the Himalaya

On Coney Island, Six Flag, Puerto Rican Bobby

Deadra Fartey, Big Head the Bull Master

That dude from the Barnes & Noble

Cindy from Crazy Growth

Every hippy I ever slept with

Forte Mousse Soussa

The last generation of free range kids

Iggy Pop

David Bowie's seventeenth drummer

Both of them

All one hundred and ninety seven of my lost poems

Found inside of snatches of cracker jack pots and bisqit wrappers and bazooka Joe ? laid to ?

Spothy, Sereah, the Baskerville Bridge, Big Head

Platform diving to Jones Beach, night orchids in Mombasa

(Mike Ladd)

At the court room ?? and hearing

Ghetto where the gypsies were not more than a year ago

Another stop on the rails, at the World Bank's heart

I'm grateful for the iron horse, it runs quiet over here

At home a stranger in the hood that looks at it

Sun and ink

A Bronx Brooklyn inner satellite denser than a nova

Cous cous ???

The patty store plastic bags floating with the pigeons

The cold and drizzle here before never welcome anywhere

It's low pressure, a far cry from Algeria

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And not that far at all

The canal color clones the sky

The water dark with cadavers

I've been to the source of the sin

Both banks one can straddle

But here? But here in Mega City 9 the sin is a monster

And on October 17th 1961, the cops forced it to swallow possibly two hundred souls, everybody from Abdoullah ?

And now in these past four years i have seen heads pushed into unmarked cars

On the dark road of L'Republique, the planes and trains are veins sooner placed with microwaves

And they cry emergency but all modders know these waves already

Ancestors rode these waves already

I holler back my own sleep soul sat very edge

Standing top this tall building here and recite the code noir

At the steel tower, steampunk empire

Afro papion, Demetrius

Afro papion, ?