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Red Hat Society

Poetry by ​​Jason B. Crawford
I have started to not trust
​anything in a red hat


Addendum:
To   trust   anything  red   at   all
Anything    that   might   remind
me         of           my         blood
How   it     could     stain     over
anything                        midnight
How it leaves anything hot as a
loaded                                 pistol
How I can see it  in the  neck of
the                                           dog
How  it  bleeds  in  between the
stitching       of         the         flag
And   I    don’t   trust    my   own
blood                                   either
That  it  won’t  leave me  if  they
decide  I  am  a  building   worth
opening
Red  is   on  everything  I’m   not
willing          to          die           for
Covering   everything  trying   to
kill me

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Jason B. Crawford

Jason B. Crawford is black, bi-poly-queer, and a damn force of nature. In addition to being published in online literary magazines— such as High Shelf Press, Wellington Street Review, Poached Hare, The Amistad, Royal Rose, and Kissing Dynamite—he is the Chief Editor for The Knight’s Library. His chapbook collection Summertime Fine was a short list selection for Nightingale & Gale. Jason is also the recurring host poet for Ann Arbor Pride.

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