DeeSoul Carson

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DeeSoul Carson is a poet, performer, and educator from San Diego, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming in Voicemail PoemsNarrative MagHayden’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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excerpt from “Black History Month (As Told By My Spam Folder)” 

 

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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.