Sarita Brown Poems

God sits next to me on the busy highway
and says nothing.

we have been traveling for months now and he is getting
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after all the time she spent on it,
you would have thought
she could recognise a dead baby
when she saw one.
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His Family welcomes me with open arms.

for my intiation, i get a white robe, a new name
a pass to all potluck feasts and communal sing alongs
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but what he knew that no one knew was the wailing
the wailing in my heart where someone
had put out a cigarette and spit.
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pop pop pop
go the guns in the street and we are alone
in a naked room on a dark
alleyway
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We met when I was 12,
you might say I was a child bride.

he was not very attractive when he was around his
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There was a light
there above and around
your fine head
which buzzed
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is there a way to find our way
and make a way in the darkness
is there a way to redefine the darkness
to know the dark-ness
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The wind is blowing a hole

in my heart
Its saying don’t be an idiot.
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