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It won’t be a bullet Lyrics by Danez Smith

Don’t Call Us Dead

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becoming a little moon—brightwarm in me one night.
thank god. i can go quietly. the doctor will explain death
& i’ll go practice.
in the catalogue of ways to kill a black boy, find me
buried between the pages stuck together
with red stick. ironic, predictable. look at me.
i’m not the kind of black man who dies on the news.
i’m the kind who grows thinner & thinner & thinner
until light outweighs us, & we become it, family
gathered around my barely body telling me to go
toward myself.

About “It won’t be a bullet” by Danez Smith

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"It won’t be a bullet" appears on "Don’t Call Us Dead".

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