Moses Sumney | Moses Sumney - Conveyor/boxes @mosessumney | Uploaded February 2020 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
From “græ: Part 1,” out now. mosessumney.ffm.to/grae
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Visual by Josh Finck

Conveyor

All aboard the bulletin board
The machine
I animorph into an organ
A spleen
Private school boy in uniform
Assembly
I will assume form
Join the workforce
The colony

Conveyor for you
Conveyor for you

The fire ants die for a chance
At the queen
The carpenter bee dies when he finally
Leaves a sting
To be a vein runnin' through your vain body
I will step on a belt, put my life on a shelf
One of many

Conveyor for you
Conveyor for you

boxes

We have no place that we can claim without contention
We are constructing a whole new edifice of boxes to put people in
To protect a space inside which you can exist
Very concerned about giving names (giving names)
Dissatisfaction seems like the natural byproduct of identification
I truly believe that people who define you control you
And the most significant thing that any person can do but especially black women and men
is to think about who gave them their definitions and rewrite those definitions for themselves