National Poetry Month Day 4: Randall Horton

 

 

 

THE GREATEST DISAPPEARING ACT EVER CONSTRUCTED AS MORALITY

                                                 the boy
grows up in a post-structural box. a perfect
      how to erase someone blueprint—: race
& the imagination. color does not fade—
                                                 in a cell
[sterile white or solid gray]     four walls
      [brick or concrete] form a container to contain.   or:
we begin with &/or make a case that—
                                                 .or.
more specifically: black & brown bodies
      are predestined & preordained
as disposable commodities of an unseen war.

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Photograph of Randall Horton by Diane Alford.


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