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3 Poems
Poetry by Saeed Jones
It Means Something Different in Arabic
for Terrance Hayes
Once, I threw a towel over my head and pretended I was Mary.
My aunt told me that pretending was blasphemy. A burnt cross
lit in my chest that day, but they say my name
first appeared in reluctantly opened love letters. »
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