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Anti poetica -- Ars America (in the hold) -- On knowledge -- Less hope -- It doesn't feel like a time to write -- [This shadow haunting me again] -- (Don't worry) if there's a hell below, we're all going to go - chopped & screwed -- Anti poetica -- Alive -- "You don't even know me / I'm hanging from a tree" -- Volta -- Headed -- Last Black American poem -- 1995 -- Approaching a sestina on I-94 west -- Dayton's bluff -- Rondo -- METRO -- Queen performing "and I'm telling you I'm not going" in a blue dress, saloon bar, Minneapolis, 07/2022 -- Dede was the last person I came out to -- Jesus be a durag -- I-35W north -- Downtown exits -- Minneapolis, Saint Paul -- Relativity -- Anti poetica -- Principles -- Poem -- Big head -- I'm not bold, I'm fucking traumatized -- The slap -- Ars America -- The joke -- I miss that negro -- Love poem outside of -- Colorado Springs -- Denver -- Sioux Falls -- Stoop poem -- El carbonero -- Two deer in a southside cemetery -- Elegy in green & blue -- My beautiful end of the world -- But how long into the apocalypse could you go before having to kill some white dude? -- The end of guns -- Love poem -- After & before -- Sonnet -- More hope -- Ars poetica -- Soon -- Craft.