so many things in this book are difficult to stomach but this is not — it makes my heart smile. His mother is a country woman and he was born in 1941 — on the heels of the Great Depression and within earshot of the great migration. industry and factories prominent in his memory of childhood and old Chicago.
+ our inherent connection to land as black people, as farming and agricultural people. little legacy making my heart smile.
«The recesses of the domestic space become sites for history’s most intricate invasions.In that displacement, the borders between home and world become confused; and, uncannily, the private and public become part of each other, forcing upon us a vision that is as divided as it is disorienting.» Homi Bhabha
My skin is brown
my manner is tough
I’ll kill the first mother I see
my life has been too rough
I’m awfully bitter these days
because my parents were slaves
What do they call me
My name is PEACHES
subatomic thoughts 