My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby
from For Fahd”
Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods...
I am 27 and have never killed a man
but I know the face of death as if heirloom
my country memorizes murder as lullaby
from For Fahd”
Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods...
