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Jameka Williams: “The Kardashians for a Better America”

December 3, 2018 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood™
I go vegan-souping over corpses of black lovers    suffer their cocaine addictions
        all awash in lube            lidocaine aglow in my gums             teeth
brighter than tequila          wear all white membrane on my tight brown body
Coco Chanel cape/for sex tomorrow night   corset thin/like a victim
      crawled through spoon shots of silicon dioxide cut with honey
      read my green tea leaves:    i'm not depressed anymore i just have desires
                                                 my psychiatrist
                                                                says
                                                 to exfoliate
                                                        better

Level 2/Haunt a talkshow this morning/Kiss a soldier on his cheek center 
stage/You are the love of his life/He keeps you folded in the pocket of his 
shorts/You must rise to every occasion/Sneeze a few million dollars before 
dinner/Keep fans from coming all over you/Get acknowledged by a cage of 
mirrors/Sleep off the demons in the backseat of a tinted Benz/(entertainment-
interrogation-interlude: how often does Kim scratch herself from the official 
record of her life?/her tongue is ghost-like or godly?)/With gold stars you 
purchase a puppy/He sleeps alongside you/In frightened snatches:

My avatar smiles back
she & i cry like real
humans do

 

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