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me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun. - Aziza Barnes
me, Aunt Jemima, and the nailgun.
Aziza Barnes
poems
Exploding Pinecone Press
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2013
Copyright © 2013 by Aziza Barnes
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ISBN 978-1-943735-02-0
Where you going? I don’t mind.
I’ve killed my world and I’ve killed my time
…if I live too long, I’m afraid I’ll die.
—The Kinks
I got a head with no screws in it—what can I do?
—Tupac Shakur
Contents
Aziza meets Charlie Parker in an unspecified bar on 52nd Street
in a jar
consider the hand
1997
hypnophobia
brown girl alien
my mouth
a small act
Aziza meets the 4 women: Aunt Sarah, Safronia, Sweet Thang, & Peaches at the Cotton Club afterhours
imitation of life
the picnic
moanin’: ode to Charles Mingus
a small autobiography
at a Mississippi crossroads, Robert Johnson’s daughter gets her blues
the love unlimited orchestra
Juicy (an erasure)
Aziza meets the nailgun
lullaby for my unborn daughter
Addie Parker speaks to Charlie Parker, a mother’s lost advice
a small translation
at what/hits stop
The Gettysburg Address (an erasure)
no country
Sing about Me, I’m Dying of Thirst (an erasure)
how the world will end/slavery returns to the black man
Notes
So,
me and Aunt Jemima walk into a bar, right?
And she had bit on a mason jar for