semiautomatic

that's a rap (sheet music for alphabet street)
I. O THE TIMES
weather or not
the way we live now ::
buried truths
what's not to liken?
playing with fire
mirror and canvas
if a junco
banking on amnesia
a one-act play
in a no-win zone
corrective rape (or, i'm here to help)
Sex Trafficking Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the USA (or, The Nation's Plague in Plain Sight)
II. THE TOPSY SUITE
studies in antebellum literature (or, topsy-turvy)
topsy's notes on taxonomy
topsy talks about her role
from topsy in wonderland
["NOW, READER..."]
III. REFRAIN
a-lyrical ballad (or, how america reminds us of the value of family)
keep your eye on
haibun for a parasitic pre-apocalyptic blues
sore score
in the california mountains, far from shelby / county, alabama and even farther from / the supreme court building, the black poet / seeks the low-down from a kindred entity
i declare war
acrobatic
song in the back yard
legend
legit-i-mate
improphised
cogito ergo loquor
philosophically immune
"the people want the regime to fall"
a dark scrawl
a one-act play
fukushima blues
jim crow stole my father's wings
supply and demand
["STOP : MEET WITH ME HERE..."]
IV. BLUES MODALITY
preface to a twenty-first-century survival guide
senzo
lotto motto
a one-act play
to be continued blues
of speech
the obsolete army
truth in advertising
upon this plot
how long has this jayne been gone?
du bois in ghana
cosmography
circe / odysseus / black odysseys (a remix-collage)
notes
acknowledgments