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The Poet Salon
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How Many Times Have I Turned to Latasha Harlan's for Us?
Ahmad: Would you read your poem, How often I've turned to Latasha Harlan's for us? So the title keeps changing, because she would have been 45 this year. As if you have disturbed someone at dinner, but rather than leave, you traipse through their closets and drawers,. fingering the fine linen shirts in pocket squares... No one even contemplates the police, which warrants I imagine and their imaginations a form of applause. My sons were gone too long. They are developing this habit of walking their allowance down to our corner store. We haven't had that talk about their bodies, about the alarming rate of illiteracy surrounding their bodies. I
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