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Index
Cover
Praise for BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
I Ain’t Gon’ Be Bald-Headed No More
Momma Has a Hair Salon in the Kitchen
That Was Her Way of Showing God
Macaroni and Cheese
We Host These Variables
Speak to Me of My Mother, Who Was She
B’Nai’s Three Babies
Period
Treat Her Right, While She’s Still Here
Momma Said Dyke at the Kitchen Table
The First Time the Black Girl Calls Her Mother a Bitch
Grits: 1967
Birmingham
South 14th Street: Nana’s House Smells Like Cigarettes
South 14th Street: The Attic Window
South 14th Street: For Sale
At Aunt Kawee’s House in Oklahoma
Blame
The Thing That Made Him My Father
Because I Am a Woman Now
Nerf Guns: Christmas 2019, Tulsa
All Them Bags
All Too Normal
And Jay-Z Says “We’ve Moved Past Kneeling”
Black Son
The Repass: Our Own Restaurant
Your Brother’s Keeper
I Know You Didn’t Mean to Kill Him: An Excerpt
Unwelcome
The Boys on Broad Street Play With Coins
24 Hours After It Happens
Secrets
Traffick
Kanye’s Black Aunties
Through the Wire
Gravity to a God
Searching for a Feeling
Footnotes for Kanye
Your God
3 O’clock in the Morning
I Watch Her Sleep
Laughing Sanctuaries
Maybe We Can Fool God
Trans-Panic
Fire
Didn’t Feel Like Winning
She Doesn’t Look Like Rape
They Don’t Know Anything
Who Am I to Blame Her
Mind in Gallivant
Mortality and Magic
Whitney: Fairy Godmother
Whitney: “Boy, Can That Girl Sang”
Whitney: Gone
Whitney: Hologram
Witch
Sharp
4 Inches After 5
I Used to Know Her
Babies at the Border
The Ocean’s Debt
The Little Mermaid
Fascinations
Bodies Lost in History
Refrain: Ledger of Women Patients Sterilized Without Consent
The Black Stork
Swine
HeLa
A Pouring Thing
Mourning
Girlish
Birthing Babies Not Her Own
A Friendly Death
Crazy
Sleep Patterns
Mud Pies
She’s Waiting for Me
Where Home Is
1,000 Questions on Gender Roles for a Lesbian
Invite Me
The Light
Kill that Nigga Dead
Giving Up God
Conversations
Dear Ex Lover
Monologue: Mother Yells at (Insert Name of Black Girl Here)
Sandra’s Haiku
Image Description
Riddle for a Black Girl
The Girl Who Didn’t Die
Sandra Bland: A Different Story
In the Video Games
Refusal
She God’s Prayer
Like I Got Gold Mines
Serena
Dear First Lady
Climbing
My Sister’s Keeper
Missing Girls
Do Not Fall in Love
I Wish You a Lover
Oxygen Mask
Reflex
Side-Chick Apologetics
Scars
I Was Here
Things Left Behind
When You Left, You Left
You Took Sundays
Pac-Man
Path Train
God Drives a Chevy
Nola
The 39 Bus Makes Stops in the South Ward
There’s a Nice Breeze Outside
God Is Watching
Even After
Brown Marks
Acknowledgments
Author’s Notes
About the Author
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