The collection plate: poems

Evening service --

Look at the material --

I'm the note held toward the end --

Company is coming over --

Solace by earl --

If I'm not my mother --

The invention of the Super Sadness! was an accident --

I hate when niggas die --

Our Father's house (i) --

#FreeMyNiggas but free my niggas --

A trilogy everyone watches --

My sex wet --

I come to you as humbly as I know how --

The many times I failed to defend my mother to Our Father --

We had died real quick --

Learning to tread water --

Collection plates --

Our Father's house (ii) --

All the things that stretch out my lower back --

Naked & afraid --

Afraid & naked --

The water cycle --

Practical life skills --

Melatonin --

Our Father's house (iii) --

Been back before --

The Super Sadness! feels like anger which feels like --

Let's leave --

I ain't never baked a thing from scratch a day in my life --

Our Father's house (iv) --

Chihuahuas --

I'm tired of yo ass always crying --

If you throw me in this water what you're telling me is you want me dead --

Most calvaries have dead people --

The maybe memory --

Happy 100th birthday --

Who say good folk ain't supposed to die --

When I eulogize Our Father --

"No one had told her about the end of love" --

Leave me alone --

If I am the Father --

Birth of black bishop --

Our Father's house (v) --

Sermon notes --

Gifting back bread & barren land.