M. NourbeSe Philip
Excerpt from: RATIO
Excerpt from: RATIO
me san me
lua thugs all fins
all round port side star board
fore & aft i am
against sin shun crime i must re
sume my tale fins all
round the guinea
negro pray s a name
a name what
is his name he
is fon he says i re
main man though sin owns me the road
to rome is long & my thirst
for truth grow s o rí orí or
í onise es o es es o es you
my must now my loss she
has died coins on her eyes cradle
the head linen for her bod y ease my
mind ruth she was too thin hang
him over
board throw her him too rum
more rum time meet s truth in a pot
of yam a
song an ode to the ne
gro in me in you to the one
the son the song in
negro i have lost ruth round
and round sound of guns they run
dogs run to ground not
so not so
tups her then tips her o
ver in my gut fear gut her them
too the raven nest s in mes
rêves rome
mourns her ruins her
runes some mourn
the dead we
the facts the