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A review by moosegurl
The New Testament by Jericho Brown
4.0
"Loneliness
Is a practice. Like medicine."
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."
"Nothing we erect is our own."
"I eat with humans who think any book full of black characters is about race."
"Once, long ago, in a land I cannot name,
My love and my brother both knocked
At my door like wind in an early winter."
"And this is North America, for God's sake, treat
Me like it, like I looked at you that able way
You look at women to prove yourselves straight."
" ... I live
With a disease instead
Of a lover. We take turns
Doing bad things
To my body ..."
Is a practice. Like medicine."
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."
"Nothing we erect is our own."
"I eat with humans who think any book full of black characters is about race."
"Once, long ago, in a land I cannot name,
My love and my brother both knocked
At my door like wind in an early winter."
"And this is North America, for God's sake, treat
Me like it, like I looked at you that able way
You look at women to prove yourselves straight."
" ... I live
With a disease instead
Of a lover. We take turns
Doing bad things
To my body ..."