Ignition by Jameka Williams
Open wide text me your fevers chat me up about our lonely childhoods spent flicking lit matches at chained dogs kick up the flames with wrap your mouth around or melt to your knees sing for me I am alone I am lonely! […]
Open wide text me your fevers chat me up about our lonely childhoods spent flicking lit matches at chained dogs kick up the flames with wrap your mouth around or melt to your knees sing for me I am alone I am lonely! […]
Whether she’s penning a scathing indictment of the cult of Kim Kardashian, or composing an exalted song to those who’ve been wronged, Jameka Williams’ poetry is passionately commanding. Though animated with pop references from Beyoncé to Taylor Swift, her work is never merely playful; instead, it is a potent manifesto […]
I stepped on my mother’s back & Earth cracked open flames chewed the hills during drought Black kids in Michigan sank to the bottom of public pools their bellies bulging with lead God’s everlasting ire never stops rolling moves in mysterious ways. For example: some men have never […]
I eat like I got Beyoncé shit to conquer I grow my eyebrows furiously I look at fucking & my genitals are not too cold or too hot I feel as if I belong to myself & deserve sweatpants I dream longer now since I’ve set it down […]