Neo

Tyrek Greene

 I didn’t think he was ugly.

we (he & I) found          love

in the shakiest places.

(he) the little black boy from

Belize with braids

who knew Spanish like 

close cousins.

we were the

                 blackest niggas

on the planet

as told 

by Keith, Francel, Jmo, even Jessi,

the self-proclaimed real pretty boy,

who once said

what's the difference

between a nigga

and an apple?

one swings

                      much sexier.

our laughs bounced off

segregated rooms of black,

somehow he taught love & skin        

were a fix link

for colored boys choking

a throat of rainbows

in the mirror.

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