ISSUE: Fall 2022
ˌpa-thə-ˈje-nə-səs
(on racism)
- sharpening the white epidermis to machete on
gum-grown whetstones belonging to inheritors
of mitochondrial Eve’s Earth-blown nakedness
a. see the Hamitic hypothesis, also Hamite - founding fathers forging personhood in maggots and ribbons mute of color by convincing
gods they are false idols since they swallow sunlight like it isn’t fire’s descendant
a. the antichrist is white jesus
b. nothing celestial is blank - tar boiling Blackness to bone stewing beings into beens shrieks that tear skies swelling with
great-grandmothers’ tears as onlookers hold daughters on their shoulders for better views - the tongue bitten off when a Black vaginal canal splits to sewer hole from clitoris to coccyx or returning home a hollowed conch amplifying the chatter on the Atlantic’s floor
a. blame J. Marion Sims
b. see Hopkins’s researchers abducting us off sidewalks