Glissade

At nineteen, a man carries me over water and my fear drops me into guilt. I like to tell you that I am young…

But these precautions didn’t stop Ekene from dying in his sleep.

In movies, the actors intertwine lips, and hold the other person’s bodies. You wonder if you should do this. Kendi beats you to it.

Familiar slogans clog social media pipelines. The red river swells with braids undone.

It had been three months since the last time I heard Om Sagda’s screams. I marked those empty days on the calendar.

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