"[up from slobbery]" by Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen is a poet and a professor of Creative Writing and African-American Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.

[up from slobbery]
by Harryette Mullen

up from slobbery
hip hyperbole
the soles of black feet
beat down back streets

a Yankee porkchop
for your knife and fork
your fill of freedom
in Philmeyork

never trouble rupture
urban space fluctuates
gentrify the infrastructure
feel up vacant spades

no moors steady whores
studs warn no mares
blurred rubble slew of vowels
stutter war no more




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