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Nonya Brimar Feb 2017
Excuse me
if I'm in no mood for
respectability politics.  

We should not have to be
shiny happy people
holding hands
for you to
value my humanity.
Nonya Brimar Feb 2017
I am not your pusher
I am not your *****

I will not stand aside
and hold the door

While you climb
and push me to the margins:
     • skip my footnote
     • ignore my humanity
     • take the credit
and more

I will not sit back
(hide my pain)
While you continue to
Slander my name
(steal my flame)

A desire for:
     •Equality
     •equity
     •fairness...
You fake.

My fire/my heart
Our creations/our art
**You take.

— The End —