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From Jersey City (Dub Version)  The island of. “The island of Manhattan, will be lost, to the rest of. continent by the. leanest system of subaqueous. tunnels in the mind. the methodology of travel. will be revolution, for then the ferryboat will cease. to be the only means of discussion. between New York and Jersey […]

1. a narrative Between memory, muscle and fat is a poetics out of a black, pleather satchel full of photos. A few shots are of my father, teaching tennis to a group of men in Guam, most of them white. Everyone is wearing white. And there is Leland Doane, who is all chest hair and […]

  Originally published in the Fall/Winter 2001 issue of Fence, as part of The Black Took Collective’s Call for Dissonance.

1. On the knees sucking a pestle. [Gripped in particular horrors: the stinked history of other inappropriate drills— being a girl.] Becomes revolving locale, cataclysmic obsession, a time-warp nightmare. In motel rooms: a ditty, a slim filth; asking questions such as when does one become whole, gentle whore? [Unfillable state.] 2. Which language rankles? Unsettling […]