American Sonnet #9 [The Cause of this much Damage...]

 

American Sonnet 9 [The Cause of this much Damage...]

the cause of this much damage...

ion think those kinds of things can always be 

quantified. sometimes ion think those things can 

always be documented (at least correctly.) 

how do you effective transcribe one's dialect? 

"all these idioms and colloquialisms—treasures of Blackness

ridiculed and called 'ignorant'" 

brightness of White tongues wrapping around our words, our 

folktales and spiritualities with the sharpness of scythes...

'have you ever seen someone come 

smilin' crucifixtions and guillotines?' 

ion think there's a number large enough to quantify Black Pain, 

Black rage, Black passion or Blackness in and of itself...after all; 

Blackness IS the absence of light.