We rebuke you
in the name of
Sonya Massey,
Duante Wright,
Andre Hill,
Manuel Ellis,
Rayshard Brooks,
Daniel Prude,
George Floyd,
Breonna Taylor,
Atatiana Jefferson,
Aura Rosser,
Stephon Clark,
Botham Jean,
Philando Castile,
Alton Sterling,
Freddie Gray,
Janisha Fonville,
Eric Garner,
Michelle Cusseaux,
Akai Gurley,
Gabriella Nevarez,
Tamir Rice,
Michael Brown,
Tanisha Anderson,
and in the name
of every Black brother and sister
taken from us
by your hands.
Tag: Polemic Verse
The Science of Smaller Plates
—a commentary on evangelical diet culture and its assault on women.
Smaller plates
mean smaller meals.
Smaller meals
for that smaller you
because they told you
the best you,
the ideal you,
God’s design for you,
is a smaller,
lesser,
wasting away you.
A smaller you,
they say,
is a prettier you,
a more fuckable you,
and a more fuckable you
is the whole reason
God made you.
A holy,
fuckable,
baby making you
because if men
can control themselves
around you,
then you are failing
to honor the purpose
god gave you.
Hymn 169: God, Guns, and Glory
Dedicated to those who choose guns over children.
Rise and stir,
Be ever bold,
Breath like myrrh
And praises manifold.
Bring your offerings
To these, our altars:
Screams, brass casings,
Your sons and daughters.
Behold, your sacrifice,
Scorned and resented,
These young lives
Guard the second amendment.