Thursday, August 28, 2014

#whateverwhenever oracle Day 1: We Need a God Who Bleeds Now

"All I want to know
for my own protection
is are we capable
of whatever
whenever."
Essex Hemphill "For My Own Protection"

The #whateverwhenever oracle is Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind's offering to the #blacklivesmatter ride, a national movement in solidarity with young black people in Ferguson, Missouri with a vision towards a just society within which black life is cherished.   Today's poem is "We Need a God Who Bleeds Now" from Ntozake Shange's 1983 collection A Daughter's Geography
To activate the oracle, choose a letter of the alphabet (your initials? the initials of a loved one? a letter that is speaking to you..) and read the poem for that letter aloud to yourself.  If you happen to choose a letter that has no words in the original poem you get to make your own poem using only words that begin with that letter of the alphabet. 

A
a
a
a
are
a
a
am
am
a
are
anything

B 
bleeds
bleeds
bleeds
breath
breaks
bleeding
bleeding
bleeds

C 
concession

D 
desert
dryin

E 
embrace
end

F

G 
God
god
god
god
god

H 
humility
honor
her
her
heaving
hold
her
hold
her
hills

I 
in
in
in
is
ignorance
i
i

J

K

L 
lord
lunar
like
let
like
life

M 
male
marrow
mothers
mothers
mourning
moon

N 
need
now
need now
not
need
not
need
now
not

O 
of
of
of
our
open
our
open
our
our
of

P 
pitiful
place
planet

Q

R

S 
some
small
some
swept
spreads
showers
shades
scarlet
seas
swelling

T 
to
the
thick
the
tearing
to
this
the
the
tugs
the
to
to
to
the

U 
us
us

vengeance
vulva

W 
we
who
we
who
whose
wounds
with
we
who
warm
wounded
we
who
whose
wounds

X

Y

Z


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