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NaPoWriMo 2018
Progress on the 30 in 30 for NaPoWriMo
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Snippet letter from the first draft
Like I said in my previous post, the first draft of my nonfiction project (there’s a poetry one coming too!) was written entirely in rants, letters, and poems. Here is a combination of all three from the first draft, something like a prose poem. Feel free to comment and/or make suggestions. I originally wrote this a…
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Easy (Tentative title)
A work in progress. First poem in a long time that I have written outside of the Hollins bubble. Covers part of being a black girl.
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I’m not fine
1. I am not mentally here on a typical day the top row of my teeth get to glisten in the sunlight as I talk about hair and makeup and nails and the little things that don’t really matter while I convince you that this smile is real. It is not. 2. I am angry…
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On police.
i didn’t know about rubber bullets or how to make makeshift gas masks until ferguson mike brown’s body boiling four and a half hours face down, hands up, and bloody in the middle of the street. justice never required six warning shots into your back there is no such thing as protocol anymore when it…
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Baby Food
If I was born around 150 years ago I may not have made it to age 2 I would have dunked in the water Unable to swim Alligators nipping at my toes And then devising I was good enough to consume Babies have pain receptors But they do not have words black babies had nothing.…
Ashley Elizabeth 