Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
Danez Smith
This poem illustrates a situation that Smith spoke of in his poem Dear Mrs. Thompson, in which the man that he was being paid to sleep with calls him a racial slur. It has been published by Pank Magazine.
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listen to this poem Dear Mrs. Thompson, Sorry if you ever taste...
10 RentBoy Commandments or Then the white guy calls you a nigger,
but not just any white guy, the one
who’s paying you, and not just any nigger,
but his little nigger child.(Never let a 50 dollar trick
do 100 dollar shit.)
You can’t deny he owns you
for at least as long as you are still
black and deep in the dark of him.
(Remember the terms discussed.)
So what do you know now? (If you failed
to discuss, know anything goes.)
You know he thinks of you
as a lion or AIDS or anything
scary and African to him.
(When anything goes, don’t panic.)
You know he thinks of you
as his son, which makes you scared
for his son, the thought that he could
want anything sweet to be this wild, wet,
and trenched in him. (Dazzled him,
even while dying inside him.)
He still called you a nigger,
but so what? You still gonna get paid.
(Respect or Groceries.)
You still gonna answer
next time he call. (this is money.)
You still broke? Still piss –on him– poor?
But you got clothes on your back,
brandy in your coffee mug. (Drink.)
Is it worth it to stop this history mucking
your skin if you ain’t you gonna eat?
(Pray soon.)
But this is all after thought,
it takes you ten seconds
longer than him to realize your hands
around his throat, ten more for you
to notice white mess on his stomach,
ten more for you to cum too.
(The customer must always leave satisfied.)
10 RentBoy Commandments was written by Danez Smith.