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No Death at the Dinner Table
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No Death at the Dinner Table

A holiday poem of Black joy

Donney Rose
Nov 25, 2021
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We never actually pull up to the holiday table
with shrapnel on our tongues or blood in our eyes
and that is the miracle
Black magic is the ability to make a burning world vanish
to make the mac & cheese of your culinary-challenged auntie
disappear no matter how burnt the crust may be
because you know she cooked it with the best in…

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