by MATTHEW OMOWALE ANTHONY
Ms. Curry shows us a video in her freshman biology class:
DNA are stranded
together. i want to run home and yell
at my twin, the boy who is stranded. my double
helix; spiraling, is a way of Storying the Science.
if “Science” is how they’ve known
our stories, no amount of Study will reveal
the strandedness of God
it’s not supposed to be said. sometimes when i write
stories; stranding us us
as gods; are we too Holy? Taiwo
pretend to care about Me. pretend!
we had pretending down to a Science to save
the part of us that was Taken.
and we were so Taken.
the missionaries had Taking, and
it too, was a “Science”. they were so Taken up with “Science”
that when we were Taken they called us theirs, and Science
is a way of saying you know God but didn’t
show him your poetry.
and when our father called, & hired PI’s
the strands of God weren’t found. they were “Science”.
we had stories of the Taken. strands
take time to unravel. and we were unrivaled, like a telling of “Science”.
run home & yell