Danez Smith Biography

O California, don't you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? I'm bored with the ocean
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ask not what your country can do for you
ask if your country is your country
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I am sick of writing this poem
but bring the boy. his new name
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one is hard & the other tried to be

one is fast & the other was faster
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the bullet is his whole life.
his mother named him & the bullet
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