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Commando
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E'mon Lauren's poems take artifacts, language, and ephemera from life on Chicago's Southside and Westside to create a manifesto of survival and growth. These poems from Chicago's first Youth Poet Laureate grapple with sexism, racism, love, and class with a style that announces Lauren as a poet to watch.
Commando is an aesthetic stick up, hallelujahs in a handbag with a handgun. The first collection from the city's first youth poet laureate is a manifesto for a solider at war.
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Commando Manifesto
**to be completely bare, openness can be a form of protection too
chicago, the block and the hood - environment controlled by masculinity
a lot of times as womyn we use our bareness, vulnerability to survive
we use our bodies, hearts on our arms to survive and be who the fuck we are**
i wear my heart on my sleeves
i don’t wear them much
chicago rips them right off of ya
so i like to get naked
now i’m a chested tube top
left my shoulders of skyscrapers open
ready for a kiss
ready for a blow
a job i can finish
Mom calls me a clever girl
said i would figure it out
taught me how to get out and be open
so i strip
gave niggas/men what they been asking for
kept plenty of blade in my tongue
might have knees that make pain or take it away
i learned my place and made it a throne
i fuck royally
turned my bed into a mauseoleum of offerings
my body is a sacrifice of my winnings
my trophies out in the open
who the fuck should i lay bare other than myself
i choose
to be commando
ready for action
ready to fight
for my land is mine
and it’s still rich
and still ours
me
and whoever i choose to be
with
for whatever reason
some call it a weak move
a vulnerable ventra card
a roadmap of all my soft spots
here is where i plant my flag
might’ve be a pitstop for niggas who needed a home too
chicago’s bosom been sagging on them for a while now
so i give mine
cook some meals
roll some blunts and fuck for free
cuz that love shit costs nowadays
ain’t much here up for profit anyway
but people find a way
use my name
try to turn me into gentrified zone
throw some good words around me
add a splash of color
give me a stage and say work
bitch
i add the work
bitch
some crack music
some real blk ruthless
grind my pretty and talk real well
deposit my dialects
spit shine th...
Table of contents
- Commando
- Speak
- Mary Lou
- My Cousin Called Those Redbone Girls 'Milli Vanillies'
- Chica-a-go
- 79th Be The Catwalk.
- The Etymology of "CHUUCH!"
- The Etymology of a Blk Girl's Name or Being Tongue Tied During Sex
- Last Name
- Micros and Aggression
- Ode to Saggy Titties
- Ode to Eczema
- Ode to Pubes
- A Window-Shopping-Ass-Nigga
- (Re)cycle
- Sanctuary of Heathens
- Preamble
- The Womb's Prayer
- Mother's Day?
- Dialogue
- Blk Ars
- Commando Manifesto