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Yalonda JD Green

Two Poems

nightwhispers

[Each color & position indicates a different child. As you read, experiment with their voices.]

<br /> first he puts his mouth on you<br /> then he gets all on top of you right?<br /> keke says there’s something about a snake<br /> a snake!?<br /> shhhh<br /> no i heard he pees in there<br /> pees? that’s nasty!<br /> it all sound nasty to me<br /> so it’s in there right<br /> in where?<br /> right in where!<br /> him or the snake?<br /> wait! is he the snake!<br /> omg<br /> see i ain’t never gon let noooooooo shhhhhhh<br /> so where the watermelon seeds come in at?<br /> yeah ain’t there some watermelon seeds?<br /> *sucks teeth* ain’t no watermelon seeds<br /> everybody knows it’s grapes but I don’t like grapes<br /> it might hurt some<br /> whaaaaaat<br /> & it can be a little bit of blood<br /> blood? blood! blood? bloood?<br /> shhhhhhhh<br /> this is so gross<br /> right i gotta tell keke</p> <p> anyway cain’t nothin happen your first time<br /> nothin like what?<br /> yeah not if it’s just your first time<br /> how you know?<br /> yeah how you know?<br /> or if you do it standing up<br /> do what standing up!<br /> will you hussssh<br /> what if you don’t want to tho<br /> right what if it’s scary<br /> shhhhh<br /> because like even if you don’t want to it’s okay<br /> yeah don’t it just mean he loves you<br /> what if you don’t like it<br /> don’t like whasssshhhh<br /> wait til I tell keke<br /> that’s how you make a baby<br />

nightwhispers

by Yalonda JD Green | listen to the poem

Knock Knock

nightwhispers</p> <p>[Each color & position indicates a different child. As you read, experiment with their voices.]</p> <p> first he puts his mouth on you<br /> then he gets all on top of you right?<br /> keke says there’s something about a snake<br /> a snake!?<br /> shhhh<br /> no i heard he pees in there<br /> pees? that’s nasty!<br /> it all sound nasty to me<br /> so it’s in there right<br /> in where?<br /> right in where!<br /> him or the snake?<br /> wait! is he the snake!<br /> omg<br /> see i ain’t never gon let noooooooo shhhhhhh<br /> so where the watermelon seeds come in at?<br /> yeah ain’t there some watermelon seeds?<br /> *sucks teeth* ain’t no watermelon seeds<br /> everybody knows it’s grapes but I don’t like grapes<br /> it might hurt some<br /> whaaaaaat<br /> & it can be a little bit of blood<br /> blood? blood! blood? bloood?<br /> shhhhhhhh<br /> this is so gross<br /> right i gotta tell keke</p> <p> anyway cain’t nothin happen your first time<br /> nothin like what?<br /> yeah not if it’s just your first time<br /> how you know?<br /> yeah how you know?<br /> or if you do it standing up<br /> do what standing up!<br /> will you hussssh<br /> what if you don’t want to tho<br /> right what if it’s scary<br /> shhhhh<br /> because like even if you don’t want to it’s okay<br /> yeah don’t it just mean he loves you<br /> what if you don’t like it<br /> don’t like whasssshhhh<br /> wait til I tell keke<br /> that’s how you make a baby<br /> Knock Knock</p> <p> Who’s there?</p> <p>Stop me if you’ve heard this one before</p> <p>Knock Knock<br /> Black girl: Who's there?</p> <p>` Last one<br /> Promise!</p> <p> I swear </p> <p>Don t make a sound<br /> (No Knock Knock) BATTERING RAM!!!</p> <p>Black girl: Wh–???<br /> Black girl’s boyfriend: ??? BANG</p> <p>Police: BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG<br /> BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBBAlNaGcBANkG<br /> BANGGBANiGBrANGBAlNGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG<br />

Knock Knock

by Yalonda JD Green | listen to the poem

Yalonda JD Green is a Delaware-based transdisciplinary performer, educator, improviser, and librarian whose experiments encircle the lives and afterlives of Black women and blackgirlhood. As vocalist and poet, she explores the nexus of song, communal memory, and legacies of violence and grief. A Cave Canem alumni fellow and daughter of Detroit, Yalonda is a 2026 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in poetry with residency support from Storyknife, the Fine Arts Work Center, Delaware Writers Retreat, and Bethany Arts Community. Recent work has appeared in Inkwell, Swamp Ape Review, and ART SICK, and forthcoming in Diode Poetry Journal. Connect with her at linktr.ee/londyjamel. 
 

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