Gyasi Hall

Gyasi Hall is a trans writer from Columbus, Ohio. Their essays “Alas, Poor Fhoul” and “Eminem Drop-Kicked Me in This Dream I Had” were both nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and their debut poetry chapbook, Flight of the Mothman: An Autobiography, was published by the Operating System in spring of 2019. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Longreads, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Brink, and 68to05. They received their MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and they are currently working on a book about Black people and comics.

Watching all 3 Purge Movies after the Death of Alton Sterling

And maybe, for the next 12 hours,

I will leave my Facebook feed to bleed out on

The side walk and put my definition of satire in the

Biggest box I can build and abandon it for some other body

To find and take care of. I will swirl these Negro tears

Around in my mouth and spit them out in into a drain that

Does not care about them and they will spin and

And be gone forever and know they aren’t

Welcome here. I’ll take a walk, and pre

Tend I’m not Afraid

Of Amer ica.

Published:

None

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Contemporary

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Poetic Form

Racial Injustice