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I snore when I sleep, I breathe nails. ~’Demola Ilesanmi I see screams I hear sun I walk on waters and swim in land. ~Rasheeda Salami BECAUSE I CAN Last night I wrote with my blood and Powered my life with ink I swam into the night sky and Sweat fire therein, I saw a jinn And was happy, I grinded my teeth For music Through my window I saw my shadow across the street Shaking hands with a stranger, soon I ate whirlwind and drank hemlock In my drunkenness I slept with clouds And made thunders and rainbows I made spears out of rainfingers And shot dragons and dinosaurs dead On the whiteness of my room walls I splattered their blood and flesh, My voice said goodnight and left, so I Danced to the smell of my eyes in the mirror I heard the moon shine in my ceiling as I Close my ears to the cold outside I slept to the noise of my mindbeat. In my dream I had a dream; I'd tell another day I woke to the footsteps of ants In the fissure of my room wa