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what it means to be a man

by stokes

i'm a man, who carries his penis erect like a knife, ready to tear into the skin of white america. i'm a man, who holds my head high, and my back straight, and looks down on anything that tries to hold me down. i am a man, a black man, who walks over the bridges of my black sister's bodies, forgetting the times when i sucked on her teat, drew out her power through her womb and called it revolution.
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