Monsters + MMoCA: A Response to Talking Continents

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Chopped And Screwed Imprecatory Club Banger With A Bullet “The Negro must have been dangerous. Because he ran” —Sterling Brown Trigger Warning waterfall river running from itself, Root River running from a traffic stop, from the cops who pulled you over at Park & 14th for not having a front license plate pow wow, it’s warm out, the trigger warning the river’s running not a waterfall but a lowhead dam my enemies fill their mouths with burning coals, give them miscarrying wombs, chase them down when they flee their vehicles, put them on administrative leave an wave them around like you just don’t care Hands Up Trigger Warning Woop! Woop! That’s the sound of the police a traffic stop as routine as a school shooting in a wealthy country The river runs until winter screams “FREEZE!” there are teddy bears and candles buried somewhere under this snow O God break the teeth in their mouths Destroy O Lord divide their tongues They should’ve reloaded & emptied the clips said one local entrepreneur online whose establishment is open even right now, tonight. There are people patronizing it this very moment. A billiards shop named Break and Run
The River is high as fuck tonight because the snow is melting like the apartments in the building on 11th & Grand that burned down like a votive candle 3 days after you were ended And the tongue is a fire A world of iniquity That’s why they have disabled the comments sections on the news articles about you too many imprecatory prayers too many distorted reflections of what we thought no longer existed Trigger Warning Post-colonial Post-racial Post-traumatic Post- I hate them with complete hatred Post- Let them be like the stillborn child the sun that never sees Darkness within Darkness The Gateway to all understanding And the name that can be named is not the eternal name Trigger Warning deflated metallic balloons in dirty snow Trigger Warning strangers thanked me at your funeral Thank you, the old man would say or the young mother holding her child And I would not ask why they were thanking me because I already knew the answer May his children be fatherless & his wife a widow May his children wander about & beg seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit Trigger Warning The Enemy of my Enemy Is my Enemy Which is to say my whole shit is broken The named is The Mother of the myriad things And you had a name so I say it: Donte Shannon The officers who dispatched you have names even still: Stillman, Chad and Boeck, Peter And the old woman whose backyard you were slain in she has a name as well I don’t know it, cause when I knocked on her door she didn’t answer. And her next door neighbors are LuAnne and Mike. And across the street are Lindsay and Brian who will be moving now because they’re tired of being scared every time their kids go out to ride their bikes
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