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Non-Parables

Non-Parables

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| the first encounter |

A young man, only a few years younger than me, interrupted
my workshop to tell me how fashionable I was in a blue-boned
sweater from Target— & that I looked Nigerian. Sorry man,
you’ve got me mistaken for someone else.


| november 2018 |

the African continent rests on my skin, torn
into thousands of sanguine ink dots that wil…

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