“I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes.”
Harryette Mullen
If You Should Go
by Countee Cullen
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the nght,
When it has slipped away.
So many hopes have fled,
Have left me but the name
of what they were. When love is dead,
Go thou, beloved, the same.
Go quietly; a dream
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer’s face.
[it’s rank it cranks you up]
by Harryette Mullen
it’s rank it cranks you up
crash you’re fracked you suck
shucks you’re wack you be
all you cracked up to be
dead on arrival
overdosed on whatever
excess of hate and love
I sleep alone
if you were there
then please come in
tell me what’s good
think up something
psychic sidekick
gimme a pigfoot
show me my lifeline
read me my rights
Fourteen Lines 