And when they propagated kinder people’s tweets, we
retweeted
but not enough, we quote-tweeted them but not
enough. tag me
in my #bed, around my bed Amerikkka
was typical: guilty house by guilty house by guilty house.
I took a joint outside and sang to the moon.
In the third month
of my hormones, in the land of terror
in the street of terror in the suburb of terror in the penthouse of terror,
our blood country of terror, we can’t forgive
who lived happily before this war.
Jzl Jmz (pronounced juh-zell jaym-s) aka [Lady Tournament] is a Black Los Angelena & award-winning Transsexual based in Portland, OR. She’s the author of 3 full-length poetry collections: Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press 2017), The 2021 Poetry Center Book Prize-winning: The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (2019) & Local Woman (2025) (Nightboat Books). She has been a Lambda Literary Fellow, & Precipice Art Grant Recipient through Portland’s Institute of Contemporary Art. She’s an occasional rapper & founder of Tournament.Haus Mutual Aid Fund. Find her talking slick or in another dimension.
