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The Kardashian Curse
01:55
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he tint-less women here
Mind my pockets — task me
For my thick hide & tight cunt;
Praise my gauze-trapped orgasms;
Envy me the herd of men
Who climb up out of me;
Crawl into the beds of my boys &
Sickle my sons with their thirst;
Scrape me of my contour &
Throw what’s left of my body
Into their mirrors; stitch my name
Into the roofs of their mouths
So they too can #drippp
Authentic power; praise me
For my discounts on IG
But disbelieve
My lack of security; I’m lit
Oil in they pipes — a nova
Out of fashion with the times.
They don’t love me as much
As they love the way I am
When I am smoked &
Ghost-drawn; I is
They idol until neon
Stenciled skies hollow me
Like the gun clips
Of hook-handed fellows
Who hollowed me & holla my name
Under disco-chipped stars
With the same glow
As my vintage angles &
Savage pose — I’m sick
With the light
Trapped inside of me
When they aside me; I am the closest
They’ve ever come to Gawd
In the flesh & yet they still
Have the nerve to take them fresh
“Brazilian” waxes to the center
Of South Shore, where they will
Swipe right
Until around what time
Do you want to hook up;
Cast themselves in shades
Of bronze for bags & bills
Already paid — which, true,
Wouldn’t be that bad
If only they didn’t:
Jerk their necks like me, snap
Their fingers like me, squat pop
Over piles of money
In the shape of a TV producer
Who just happens to know
The true value of false b/ l/ a/ c/ k pain;
Shadow dip themselves
In my hustle & use my Gawd-
Given name in vain.
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Concrete Qweens
03:30
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Collage of A Dying Sun
03:11
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Sandboxes
02:17
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#HoodWitches
03:18
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Faylita Hicks San Marcos, Texas
Faylita Hicks (pronouns: she/her/they) is a black queer writer and the Editor of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. A 2019 LAMBA Lit Fellow, she was a finalist in the 2018 PEN American Writing for Justice Fellowship, the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Annual Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry’s 2019 Spotlight Award. Her debut book, HoodWitch, is forthcoming October 2019 with Acre Books. ... more
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