THIRD SONNET
is not about you. I am capable
of drafting these winds in my chest. Ease my mouth into
even newer music. I am as a crow in
a basket of French fries: sudden slow the drip
of me inside you. There was another set of persons
who might have otherwise obliterated a small nation
but instead insisted on a walk, considered
a dog— and moved on. The statue I’m eyeing
in this country would have wanted me dead or
at the very least deeply unhappy. This is not another race poem
but often I look at us and cosplay radicalism.
Can I lie to you quickly? I have never wanted another
version of events. This is my best life. All my life
is with you even on Tuesday.
Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He mains Ken in Street Fighter.