Potential Titles: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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There's no simple story in this body - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Forty miles of perfect bad road - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

But there's a lot of stairs here too - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Could read you the particulate matter of the air - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

The staying chant the recitation of everything - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

On the subway huffing diesel and cigarettes - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Locks all my earth into cement - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

This pain breathing into any place that doesn't hurt - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Which only exists in my revolutionary imagination - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

Who prays you all the way home - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Brown Love"

When war forces our hands - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

If the border does not love us - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

In the clouds ten years in the future - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"

When I hear us dream our futures - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "Femme Futures"


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