Beatrix
(Davy Davy Dumpling)
Emmett Till so lovely,
put him in a pot,
douse him with dove's cream
and eat him while he's hot!
wherein we entertain the notions of a creature embroiled in sorting multiple identities. is she a mother? a poet? a performer? an organizer? or is she simply the product of a feminist movement in which women dreamt that simultaneously singing opera, tap-dancing, spinning plates, spouting rhetoric and solving algorithms was liberation. here are the rough drafts.
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