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"All I want to know
for my own protection
is are we capable
of whatever
whenever."
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
V
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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