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ON PRESCRIBING KINSHIP Rx ONLY

by Denoo Edinam Yawo

ON PRESCRIBING KINSHIP Rx ONLY


COMPOSITION

WARNINGS & PRECAUTIONS

Do not store above witness, 

30°C past a shrapnel-tearing-flesh flung sky-high.

Do not store above olive groves turned graveyards,

above cobalt rivers where children sift through the wounded,

above deserts where mothers braid dead children into their spine,

30°C past the wet gasps of a genocide.

Store in the original container.

Protect from decay,

from the Mediterranean coastal plain, the hills,

the regions of the north, and the Great Rift.

Protect from imperial hunger—the old-age capitalist mouth.

Protect from oil-salted Gulf winds, the glittering mirage of mines.

Protect from Cupertino orchards—the fruit empires monetizing breaths.

Protect from displacement, creating its own kind of lineage.

Protect from kinship as necessity,

kinship as learning to answer to each other’s grief.

DOSAGE: One stranger at dawn; dissolve under fear.

NOT TO EXCEED PRESCRIBED HOMELAND PER LIFETIME

KEEP REACH OUT OF SILENCE

INDICATIONS, WARNINGS & PRECAUTIONS

Read the package leaflet before use.

Warning: Formulation contains…


Artwork courtesy of our featured artist Ernest Williamson III, PhD

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