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 "anthem for my belly after eating too much"

This poem is pretty interesting. The overall look of the poem is eating too much and how it can affect you. But in reality, it is about social injustice and how it feels to witness it as the victim. For example "militia of grease" and "suffering" are calls to how she feels with the overload of struggles she has a black queer woman. The term "chips" refers to the white ignorance or white privilege that she is forced to consume on a regular basis, and chips are unhealthy. This mean that the chips she over ate on is unhealthy for her, or white privilege and or ignorance is too unhealthy for her.



"The Church of Michael Jordan"

The obvious connection is that basketball is like prayers and you must pray towards the open arms of God, for when you do, you'll receive a successful but temporary feeling of happiness and humbleness. Since it is temporary, the player must repeat over and over again. Every missed shot can be considered as a sin or "missing the mark" and a rebound must be taken at all costs to redeem one's self. Another lesson McDaniel gives is that God is everywhere and works behind the scenes to lead you and to help all of us, we just have to keep our eyes peeled and look for Him. I appreciate the last stanza, where it compares the non and true believers of Christ to the equivalents in a basketball game, where the final shot is the miracle they all are waiting for to be witnessed.

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