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Callaloo 29.1 (2006) 31


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Phat: A Meta-Discourse on the Value of Canonizing

The Round (Spheropygian), Broad (Platypygous), and Bulging (Pleopygian) Buttocks (with a resistance to such speech)

Kyle Dargan

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Mammy is her own Madonna/whore complex, so please don't ask if she needs help carrying all that. Brother Slim, you've been rapt inside her phonetic shape for ages—save all that R&B about wanting into them jeans, those drawers, those boots, that—

2.

America's history is of not asking before helping itself to cuts of scapedonkeyass—the strung up, disembodied curvature a struck sieve spilling black men who burn like phosphorous on the way down, more flash than heat.

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And praise be! Praise be! But what of our sister who pastor'd deem unanointed—all there minus that? The one who learns to ask god for more because the chitlin' translation states Adam deemed Eve Cola. His descendents collect linguistic royalties for life, staking God's work is in excess which isn't excess because they see it and it is good.

4.

The human animal will hunt what it cannot find in mirrors but can convince itself of new prey when nothing near satisfies.

5.

"Y'all love them Boriqua heifers 'cause they got body like black women but take your bull like white girls." So, we don't go to the parade.

6.

He wants to put his ear to her like she is all conch, mindful of the sharp tips which make her beautiful.
Kyle Dargan is a writer-in-residence at American University (Washington, DC), as well as a graduate student in its Arts Management Program. His first collection of poems, Listening, won the 2003 Cave Canem Prize and was published by the University of Georgia Press. A graduate of the University of Virginia, he recently received the MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has also studied in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops.


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