DeeSoul Carson
DeeSoul Carson is a poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming in Voicemail Poems, Narrative Mag, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. A Stanford University alum, DeeSoul has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and New York University, where he is a MFA candidate in the Creative Writing program. (Source)
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Subject: How Do I Put It?
My existence can be boiled down
to a litany of companies trying
to sell back to me their abuses.
My freedom is conditional and therefore
worth only as much as I’m willing
to subscribe. My life cannot be bought
but it can be marketed to. Question:
If a Black person is alive but no one
is around to profit off of them,
do they make a sound? A different way:
Can anyone hear me when I ask
to be left alone? What are my wishes
worth? Does the hand that feeds me
reach out to smother me in my sleep?
Does anyone see the hand? If
it kills me, who lays claim to my
bones? How much will it make them?
Published:
2023
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2025
Themes:
Humor & Satire
Identity
Persona Poems
Poetic Form
Pop Culture
Racial Injustice
Technology
Violence & War
Literary Devices:
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Rhetorical Question
a question asked for effect, not necessarily to be answered
Sarcasm
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt
Visual Poetry
Poetry written on the page with intentional form to add meaning to the poem.