you took turns from all your cities & stayed overnight with me on the phone for three days snoring & murmuring in your sleep
Safia Elhillo
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- “Ode to My Homegirls,” Girls That Never Die: Poems (2022); Full poem read via authorized publisher excerpt on On Being, May22,2023. Final three lines,24 words;1 remains for the book. Preserves lowercase, ampersands and line breaks. Friends stay on the phone after an attempted break-in; complete clos
- “Ode to My Homegirls,” Girls That Never Die: Poems (2022)
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