Video American Sonnet For My Past And Future Assassin But There Never Was A Black Male Hysteria de Academy Of American Poets 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Academy Of American Poets - American Sonnet For My Past And Future Assassin But There Never Was A Black Male Hysteria Lyrics

But there never was a black male hysteria
Breaking & entering wearing glee & sadness
And the light grazing my teeth with my lighter
To the night with the flame like a blade cutting
Me slack along the corridors with doors of offices
Orifices vomiting tears & fire with my two tongues
Loose & shooing under a high-top of language
In a layer of mischief so traumatized trauma
Delighted me beneath the tremendous
Stupendous horrendous undiscovered stars
Burning where I didn’t know how to live
My friends were all the wounded people
The black girls who held their own hands
Even the white boys who grew into assassins