On Racial Trauma and Exhaustion

It's exhausting to be a guest
In somebody else's house
Forever.
Even though the host invites
The guest to say
Whatever it is they want to say,
The guest knows that host logic 
Is variable.
Prick me.
And I will cut off the energy 
To your life.
 
Kapil, B. (2020). How to Wash a Heart. Pavillion Poetry, Liverpool University Press.