Sumbodies Mama - Keeping Time (short) @ Voices In Power | Spoken Word Poetry

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[00:00:00]When you asked about me, they said I was a wet dream wrapped in barbed wire, written in brimstone and fire desired a corset cutie with a pen. Living in the age of minimum wage and overpriced apartments kept that on the clock that talk like top ramen. I still got the watch o'clock my hot girl summer's with.

[00:00:17]My wrist is thick with the weight of motherhood so I just keep it for the memories while I'm raising a tiny terrorist. Plagued by the era of gentle parenting. Keeping time on a watch called giving it the guard. If they ask about me now, tell them I'm living in the age of mercy where the miracle is pooping in the potty, raising a son who keeps time in the verses he's learned from Hercules. Tell them I have the privilege of naming this his era of defying the odds. He keeps it on a watch based after a fairy tale with a princess whose hair kinks just like his mother's.

[00:00:51]Tell them that I am creating a time that can be kept in the influence of a boy who broke boundaries bigger than the blasphemous benchmarks associated with his beautiful blackness. See, my son will keep time on a watch that is intentionally black, aggressively successful and keeps seconds better than streetlights. It'll tick like the middle passage. He will show up and out because his alarm will smell like the fear of drowning but he will know that he is unsinkable and when you ask him about his mama,