Poems from NSHagans
I take eight pills every morning
eight pills
eight candy-coated
medicinally infused
capsuled doses
of poison.
After every shower
I lather...
If a black teen is murdered
and there’s no one around
to hear the sound
was it really murder at all?
Three to four hours
after he was ...
When there is something wrong you press;
press nails into palms
teeth into lips
knee to knee
toe to toe
go head to head with the
war that’...
So
you think
you want
to be a killer,
tearing out hearts in exchange for souls
leaving a pile of bodies
that were never good enough for...
I am waiting for hands
that have known a hard day’s work
whether it be tending the earth
or fitting to the curve of a razor blade.
I am...