It’s just a word / But what if it’s a word born of hate? / What if it’s a word filled with contempt? / What if it’s a word that denigrates? / What if it’s a slur or crude? /…
No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that
We’ve have watched you / Come after us and our rights / Time and time again / Every single generation / Every time we start to shine / Every single time!
Even when you anticipate it / the sting pulses through you / whether it’s a love interest / who picked someone else / or the local poetry festival / that rejected your work / as unsurprising as it is. /…
Bobby sees words as action, part and parcel, intertwined in the very fabric of existence, a grounding motivation for movement, for protest, for love, for community, and for building up in us, between us, and around us a world that…
Words, it was once said, are made up of 26 letters, and that's all that's needed to explain and describe everything in the known universe. Andrea Gibson's universe is one we're grateful for.