Iodo

The salt burns me
The salt burns me
The salt spreads me
The sea reflects me

The sea welcomes me
The sea embraces me
The sea caresses me
The sea drowns me

The sea sinks me
The sea kills me

The deep pain
Bottom of the ship

Deep murky dark hard
Deep hard dark tomb
Cuts the wind silences rain
Horizon is all salt

It's all far
It's all sorrow
It's all theft
Colonial

There's no cure, the dead fall
(Dom hides)
The dark skin

Egungun
Good
(To fly)

And evade
The white crowd
To the sharks
And the holds

From above

Dive

And shipwreck
And now fragile, fragile, fragile

The magician of the diaspora: Un
Memorize homeland-ground

But if I was already thunder
That nothing undid
I know how to be

Thunder

That nothing undoes, neither

The overseer
Nor loneliness
Nor corrective rape against
Lesbian

The containment complex
Asylum is the same as prison is the same as
School is the same as prison is the same as asylum is the same as

The policies
Uterine
Of extermination
Of a people not
Recognized as civilization

(But I know how to be thunder
And if I know how to be thunder
That nothing undid
I will be thunder
That nothing un
does)

Nor loneliness
Nor the overseer
Corrective rape against
Lesbian the madness of
Loneliness overseer burning

The inheritance
Of my
Ancestors

Dragging
Cláudia
In the police van

Police tank
111 Shots against
5 Bodies
111 Bodies
Dead
In prison

Do I know how to be thunder?
That nothing undid?

I was already thunder and if I was already thunder I know how to be thunder!
I know how to be thunder that nothing
Nothing
Undoes

Epahey oyá!

I know how to be
Thunder
And nothing
Undoes me