Enrique Gautier

Pills

there are only 10 pills left, maybe
hanging I’ll hang myself on number 11/ ask the VA today: no brown allowed
another day of Synthroid, but they just want slaves
nope, last I checked I still I am missing half my thyroid, so fuck I am fucked
kindly swap my lifeline for a placebo and tell me it will be ok
you know if I had a full thyroid would I still choke on burnt oil today, well
only, maybe long enough so that another immigrant
unsuspecting of an immigration raid, will take my place
furious I am that my pills are late, like kids in Gaza praying  
or running to another bomb parade
rave rage rave/ and rave like rabid dogs
yokes hanging from their tongue, another
orbital forced on their brow, cause
u know they are brown after all, rolling on shit
rolling and drooling over shit, your shit my shit that they clean
so spectacularly naïve, they are brown like me and clean
every nook of the VA, get me my Synthroid, 75mcg
right away, wait this is the new VA: Ask Private Equity for 10 days of sub meds
verily call with my brown accent, and ask “what’s up where are my meds?”
instead I get a Karen on the phone, a male Karen and that says “would you like a cup of ICE?”
cause really I am just a brown man in this land and I should be in Palestine
exploding/ with men/ who have/ a full/ thyroid. 
white lily pills arrive today, 
enveloped in a brown plastic bag
like everything in this land, brown always protecting white
like land mines clearing Palestine of bagged lives
falling on the street a man says he’s a vet/ I wonder if he has a thyroid left
untangled from burn pits and monitoring what he eats, 
caused if he’s useless, maybe the VA will ship his ass to Palestine
knighting, no fisting/a king’s ass/ not knighting nor fisting, digging his own grave
over sacred land
fuck…wait I cant tell the VA to fuck
for they are part of the White House and fuck my Synthroid
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and all I want is to rage and rage until my rage turns blood crispy golden brown but the rage lives on
and on as I took an oath and I am an addict to Synthroid and I wait for another handout but in your
hallowed halls you talk to Elon Musk and AIPAC and you care about is another bomb
another contract another way to extract one more dollar out and I want to inoculate my thyroid
against the needs of Synthroid but I cant you saw to make me your slave so I cant protest on the
street and call you fucken bone spur TACO cunt and my heart weeps for another Synthroid pill as
children are torn limb from limb in Gaza city as children are torn limb from limb in Marfa Texas
because they are brown and here I am a little cunt worried about Synthroid because after all whats
the best way to conquer and rage and rage and conquer and you divide myself and my brethren and
conquer you take my thyroid and you conquer and my rage will rage and rage and on and rage and
rage but you conquer and conquer Gaza and maybe take my neighbors Flautas say well the child
born in the USA is too brown to enjoy the privileges and immunities of the USA but I am too
addicted to Synthroid to risk an 11th day on an 11th hour on an 11th month for my rage is all about
only have 10 pills left and 10 hour wait just to get 10 more days. 

Ancestral Cry

Substitute at your own peril

Black is the name/your respondent race permitted/ you are brother in spirit/ your spirit is soul receiving
law/talking/ you have a synaptic cleft running//The body randomly methylates genes through
life.//desires to run/F. admissions/ the calmness of a soul//scat people//2. Admissions//a world
without courts/ writing without meaning/Methylation is a critical part in embryonic
development.//Never know if knowing is dangerous. immeasurable white U. is Black/i know that all
mothers are Black/All mothers share the same DNA/ U. that targeting without will shares being a
man born of a mother/your DNA is Black/Black is a name/Black is the noun of birth //Black is
the fusion of all colors// Methylated genes are locked in the “off” position.//The inversion of
life when none can escape/ limited American education./All mother’s mitochondria/Traced to one
symbiotic realm/A bacterial conquest between oxygen’s electrons/ibid// And a poison’s neutrons/
see ibid// 3./Life and death/All our mother’s mitochondria are the same// Methylation changes
human expression without altering human nature.//Same African Eve/Eve the original biblical
name/Eve, you the subjugated black mother// admissions survives race/The mother of Okra
crossing the ocean/An ocean/Not the Atlantic Ocean/In search of a word of impermissible mines/
that selection to being/Camp Blanding a model of Army perfection//Cytosine residues in DNA can
be methylated to produce 5-methycytosine.//both/Built in the Antebellum of Florida’s swamp/
Modeled after the Magnolia Plantation built by Gullah’s children// The spirit be people immortal./a
leviathan gaffe robbing/the menudo of their letters/calling/The Atlantic Ocean /full of majestic
swells//home of the Bermuda triangle/how many black souls dwell in your depth //African
children brought on wave /riding wooden boats/African dreams shattered for the greed of /
Cotton, sugar cane/Black men, black children//The color Black/Black skin absorbing all
wavelengths of light/Refusing to consciousness. slip//4./What is in a Name/is its combination of
random letters/the never cultures//much like DNA/crafting messages for the universe to untangle/
Is a Name the force of nature/the very combination of quarks, /positrons and electrons /binding
water to steam /steam water scalding white gold//Stability of an mRNA also plays a role in
regulation gene expression. //streams of blood/streams of blood run afoul/ the status quo/down
a slave’s back/is a Name magic//Ancestral magic refusing the passes/of men appropriating a cry/
say the name/Commission this purport quotation/the name of creole children/the birth of neutral
brown/Homer, Jackie, Rubie, Martin//upon their brethren breath/black is a name that absorbs all
wavelengths/a color devoid of all color/the soul ready to accept all weaving pains/Chose to rid the
soul of blackness/Not understanding that this irrespective of 1st 11/To understand admitted the extra-
race./ Mutations in DNMT3A could result in hypomethylation in the promoter regions due
to abnormal methyl transfer, resulting in increased gene expression.//To feel racial future//
Hexokinases, the enzymes responsible//To feel love/To feel the Government paradox /to destroy /
what little life there is/Enrolled constitution, what is your name?/what magic does your name
hold /upon the discriminate prior comm. /freed a century ago/only for a nameless/to plunge them
back//5./to the briming of their flesh/flesh ripped from sinew and marrow/scars resisting the
break/skin whipped to stiff peaks/a sonic boom/eyes adverting the Master’s gaze/ a history of
sorrow and hope/broken promises amid dreams of flying home/you are not Creole/or less. utopian
to many of military/you are not your DNA/but your DNA is now outdated DNA equity/black
mitochondria//6./You whose spirits walk in the//Tay Sachs disease is a lethal disorder caused
by a deficiency of enzyme hexosaminidase-A, resulting in the accumulation of GM2
gangliosides.//night of eighteen respondent race permitted/eighteen years to die/eighteen years after
your death/a Thirteenth and 25 concludes Id., S., admitted /Black. States expect not a black man/the sole
history tailoring//hereinafter law students to attended less/you whose struggles/mired in diversity
despotism/created by the urgency to replicate/to review /the sounds of a strumming guitar/singing the
Blues of tip GPA/I peel okra’s skin/Within an inch of you/Wondering who commanded the swells of
598 claims/Of Atlantic birth canal/ do you ever think like i do?/Am I insane for thinking that black-
eyed peas/ the one decision admitted. essay /A combination of black and white//7 fourth in-state
recommendations. //The breakdown of normal controls of DNA methylation is very
constant for any one cell type, they pattern becomes very variable in tumour  cells (This is
how the rest of the Anglophone world spells the word tumor)./A torment that allows the fusion
of groups or Diversity /To penetrate the soul/one color receives all pain/another refuses all love?//
which bean would i prefer to be if I had a choice/to birth myself today in my land?/am i a colonizer
tilling the land for a child half white?/or am i the progeny of slaves never allowed to read again?/how
many men live less than eighteen years/how many die on foreign soils/how many black men die at
the hand of police/how many black men fail to join the hollow grounds//8./F. the man without a
name/sitting on a window/a sill charring race-based/barley, peppers over an open fire pit, /oaked
blood /calls charred skin/a slave walking JUSTICE THOMAS/on marbled floors/wondering/am I
good enough to enter this Supp. without favors?//9 GORSUCH’s conclusions, underrepresented//
microRNA (miRNAs) are small RNA molecules that regulate protein expression at a
posttranscriptional level /grit/brine scaling/the mind/children learning/to read/taking from
Nation’s racial Marshall/but why would they bother/to sift, peel and boil Both thought, passive of the
candidates/called on the scalawag/that brought law/to this shores against their will/student dissent
awake on this new shore /against will,/against the passage of the sky/upon a red sun on a winter’s
day/to recapture racial Virginia.//10 race linked //Mutations in TET2 could result in
hypermethylation in the promoter regions of genes due to abnormalities in demethylation
function/Amendments./free Justice v. immediate v. academic enrollment/yourself from the ghosts of
Camp/but chickens run/lost amid frolicking children/on the bayou of New England marsh./free
journey doesn’t end/in time for life to respect Court’s Only citizens on Decisions/buck-buck-buck
squawk on a single cluck//The oxidation of acetyl-CoA is in the TCA cycle and the conservation of
this energy as NADH and FAD(2H) is essential for generation of ATP in almost all tissues in the
body./a broken neck/deplumed, deflowered, chic/no longer heading for a roost/400µm of
separation/cold raw skin/golden brown,/crip crunching delight/boiling corn syrup./Cessation of
messages of love/pain, thought and//11./at once the board of Half U reasons on the steps, on
burlap /sacks neatly wrapped around the sight of men, women and /children whose skin the sun
burned to an office of/a Protection white process/DNA and barley baked in clay urns/enter the
Atlantic Birth Canal/so that it be resolved on this day.//Epigenetics is the study of changes to the
DNA without changing the body’s DNA sequence.