Best Understated Poems

I'm not comfortable
talking about racial differences,

Or even racial
or sensual similarities.

I know what you mean
or maybe I do.
Something intimate and personal
about melanin
and hair qualities
and what lies red-blooded
under shared and segregated skin.

I remember when long hair quantity
was an anti-patriarchal political statement,
maybe even anti-capitalist economic divestment;
But not political...

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i lost you in
the first moment of
flutterstop heartbeats
and some imagined kiss

anticipation kills
and my twinkle died
within you
stirring nowhere but
in the hatred that poured down cheeks 
on which my fingertips once danced

give me nothing
but one moment to cry (you
need these tears you do)
give me everything
in one sincere...

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Wily and creative in life, terrorizing in death
Understated breathless anticipation prances forth
jiggling quarts of kangaroo cacti exasperating my zany mother...

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