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Poet X 293: Sometimes I’m still awake / writing when Mami gets up at the ass crack of dawn / to go to work.at ass crack of dawn (n.) under ass, n.
Poet X 293: Sometimes I’m still awake / writing when Mami gets up at the ass crack of dawn / to go to work. Poet X 126: [F]ought the world / [...] / into respecting her as a whole grown-ass woman.at grown-assed, adj.
Poet X 50: Running around in ball shorts and no tees.at ball, n.1
Poet X 180: Nicki Minaj [...] GOT BARS . . . by which I mean to say, she is very artistically talented! She’s not just a great ‘female rapper,’ she’s a great rapper, period.at have bar (v.) under bar, n.3
Poet X 359: [Acknowledgements] Special thanks to [...] Justina Ireland for her thoughtful blurb.at blurb, n.
Poet X 164: There are only a handful of people there, / who, like me, made bootleg attempts at a costume.at bootleg, adj.
Poet X 92: I smile over my shoulder at me bubble butt in the mirror.at bubblebutt (n.) under bubble, n.1
Poet X 237: I hear Mami on the phone / making plans to send me to D.R. for the summer.at D.R.
Poet X 108: (I’m not sure if your eyes / can roll so hard in your head / that a stranger could use them / as a pair of dice, but if they can / someone just bad lucked on snake eyes).at snake eyes, n.2
Poet X 38: [I]t’s the first week of school, / and teachers always fake the funk the first week.at fake the funk (v.) under fake, v.1
Poet X 69: The last thing I need is for someone to see me / trying to holla at a dude in the middle of class. / Then I’ll really be known as fast.at fast, adj.1
Poet X 28: I’m just saying, I’m ready to stop being a nun. Kiss a boy, / shoot, I’m ready to creep with him behind a stairwell and let him / feel me up.at feel up, v.
Poet X 191: Aman’s made a junkie out of me: / [...] He’s turned me into a fiend: / waiting for his next word / hanging on his last breath.at fiend, n.
Poet X 297: Chris takes off his fitted and croons ‘Happy Birthday’.at fitted, adj.
Poet X 4: ‘Especially knowing you church girls are all freaks’.at freak, n.1
Poet X 160: I’m so heated / with Twin / for not telling me / someone at school / was bothering him.at heated, adj.
Poet X 69: The last thing I need is for someone to see me / trying to holla at a dude in the middle of class. / Then I’ll really be known as fast [ibid.] 293: I write about Mami, about feeling like an ant, / about boys trying to always holler at me.at holler at (v.) under holler, v.
Poet X 51: [I] take a step until I’m right in homeboy’s face.at homeboy, n.
Poet X 51: ‘Homie, what makes you think you can ‘handle’ me, / when you couldn’t even handle the ball?’.at homey, n.1
Poet X 5: The other girls call me conceited. Hot. Thot. Fast.at hot, adj.
Poet X 122: Xiomara, if Father Sean says something to your moms it’s going to be a hot mess.at hot mess (n.) under hot, adj.
Poet X 359: [Acknowledgements]To my editor, the OG of kid lit, Rosemary Brosnan.at lit, n.
Poet X 97: I don’t want a converted man-whore like my father / so the whole block talks about my family and me.at man-whore (n.) under man, n.
Poet X 254: [A] part of me feels like maybe I messed up.at mess up, v.
Poet X 28: I’m just saying, I’m ready to stop being a nun. Kiss a boy, / shoot, I’m ready to creep with him behind a stairwell and let him / feel me up.at nun, n.
Poet X 359: [Acknowledgements]To my editor, the OG of kid lit, Rosemary Brosnan.at o.g., n.
Poet X 180: Nicki Minaj [...] GOT BARS . . . by which I mean to say, she is very artistically talented! She’s not just a great ‘female rapper,’ she’s a great rapper, period.at period, phr.
Poet X 90: [M]y old-school / Dominican parents / Do. Not. Play.at play, v.
Poet X 229: My mother’s face scrunches tight / like someone has vacuumed all her joy.at scrunch, v.
Poet X 299: I grab my phone to shoot Caridad a text.at shoot, v.
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