This poem makes me despair that other human beings have to write poems such as this.
This poem makes me despair that I’ll never write anything so true.
Read the poem. Listen to the recording. Celebrate Danez Smith and his words.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/say-it-your-whole-black-mouth-0
O at the Edges 
This makes me unbelievably sad.
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A poem that stays with you.
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I love Danez Smith and his poetry!
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He’s such a needed, powerful poet!
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This poem is so heartbreaking, enraging, and powerful. I read it a few weeks ago and instantly saved it to my files. All his work is incredible. In fact, I’m using his poem “Little Prayer” as the epigraph and through-thread to a new novel. Thank you for posting this.
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I read it a few days ago, and thought WOW! But I didn’t listen to it until today. WOW doesn’t come close to describing what that experience did to me.
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“… take the hunter by the hand.”
Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela,
Ghandi … how times does this need
to be said till the hunter is no more?
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It goes on and on and on…
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Powerful–and yes, to all you said. Thanks for sharing.
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Danez Smith’s is a voice to be heard!
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Yes, hearing him, made it extra powerful.
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I’ve watched videos of him, which were also very moving, but the disembodied voice without visuals affected me even more.
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Thank you for leading me to this, Bob. So powerful.
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A powerful writer and performer!
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Thank you for pointing, Bob. More need to follow.
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He’s compelling!
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The real problem is that the people who need to hear these words aren’t listening…(K)
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Or they hear something entirely different.
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Thank you, Robert.
“i did not come to preach of peace
for that is not the hunted’s duty.” – Danez Smith
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One of the most powerful poems I’ve read. And listened to!
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