The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday m… - Saeed Jones

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The end of the world was mistaken
for just another midday massacre
in America.

Saeed Jones

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Saeed Jones (born November 26, 1985) is an American poet.

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Of course I wanted to see the world, to experience its fullness. I wanted to be a real part of it, rather than the passing shadow I so often felt like. I wanted to devour the world.

I sat there ablaze, struggling to apprehend a new, darkly radiant sense of self.

It's just too easy for a gay black man to drown amid the names of dead black gay men.

You were never going to be one of them, said the lightning in my shoulder. Stupid, stupid, stupid, answered the thunder in my fists. I felt like I’d been split open.

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