I think this is my favorite poem.
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, from "Another Middle-Class Black Kid Tries to Name It" [transcript in ALT]
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, 'Meditations in an Emergency', from Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich
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from THEORY OF MOTION (4): ANOTHER MIDDLE-CLASS BLACK KID TRIES TO NAME IT by cameron awkward-rich, published in transit
[Text ID: Please—what’s the word for being born of sorrow that isn’t yours? For having a family? For belonging nowhere? Not even your body. Especially not there. /End ID]
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Theory of Motion (4): Another Middle Class Black Kid Tries to Name It, Cameron Awkward-Rich
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— from The Unabridged Journals, Sylvia Plath (via)
— Dogfish, Mary Oliver, from 'Dream Work' (via)
— This is Home, Cavetown
— Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
“I’d given up, you know, resigned myself to the idea of the idea of desire, the body—my body— a locked door.”
— Long Distance, Cameron Awkward-Rich, in Dispatch (via)
— Me and Stephen Hawking, Manic Street Preachers
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i am Never Not thinking about this
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hiii can you do web weaving about finding your true purpose in this world?
The world is so vast and beautiful and I am exactly where I'm supposed to be.
I'm terribly sorry this took so long! ;^^
No Accidents, Nikita Gill | Baked Goods, Aimee Nezhukumatathil | Errand Upon Which We Came, Stephanie Strickland | Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson | Bluebonnet Scene, Robert Julian Onderdonk | In Way of Music Water Answers, Adam Wolfond | The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm, Wallace Stevens | Cento Between the Ending and the End, Cameron Awkward-Rich | Cat Stop, Farah | The Invention of the Interstate System, Mira Rosenthal | Watching you talk on the phone, I consider the empty space around atoms–, Rhiannon McGavin | Presumably Dead Arm, Sidney Gish | Oakland in Rain, Aria Aber
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A worldview produced by trauma [...] is one that is understandable but not, in the end, of any epistemic value. Feeling bad, they seem to say, obscures rather than clarifies, produces unreliable knowledge about the world. Curious. We seem to have found ourselves in familiar territory. You depressed transsexual. You traumatized white woman. You angry black woman. You melancholic homosexual. How can we possibly take seriously what it is you think you know?
Cameron Awkward-Rich, The Terrible We
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There are at least two theories about love. Both begin as violence. The subject encounters the object & a slit opens inside him.
Essay on the Awkward / Black / Object, Cameron Awkward Rich
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the oa (november 2023)
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, Meditations in an Emergency
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