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Pick Up Your Feelings (after Jazmine Sullivan)

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By Nandi Comer, Venus Thrash, Metta Sáma, Kamilah Aisha Moon
| verse.press
By Nandi Comer They call. They message. Then the occasional tag on social media. I am wanting to check in on you… We are thinking of you… I am so so sorry… Then                  there                  I go again                  pounding my head sifting through thick air scattering names on a dusty floor It is morning. It is the afternoon, maybe the middle of some God-awful hour. I was calm. I was hunkered low, shades drawn maybe sipping a tea.
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OutWrite 2019: 'Jamaican Gay Activist Found Slain' by Venus Thrash

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By Venus Thrash
| Metro Weekly Verified
You’re not surprised you died so inelegantly in your own home your own bed faced down on bended knee as if in raptured prayer. Your brown bottom jutted upwards slippery from the night before. Your linen outdoor fresh after drying on the line all afternoon under that legendary Jamaican sun. Its promise of warmth unbowed. No other way to love you insisted. No other way to hold and be held. To sip salty sweat from the lobe of his ear.
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Uncivil | Poetry Database | Split This Rock

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By Venus Thrash
| splitthisrock.org
By Venus Thrash I am wearing a white tux with tails, or a baby blue one with a ruffly shirt, or decked out in classic black, or coolly clad in a pearl-white dashiki embroidered in gold silk, or my favorite pair of holy blue jeans with a white tee shirt that says I Heart Pussy, or the green one with the black velvet fist raised in the air, & you're not wearing a white dress at all but a wispy wraparound, strawberry-red, that hugs you warm & tight around the waist, cut low at the small of your...
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