Abstract

Mosquitoes drove whites upland to count money black overseers made, mosquitoes made the air grow whelps on skin unused to what makes money, the sun boiling Charleston harbor, boats chugging through the marsh with rice, mosquitoes, not blacks and their congresses of prayer, disease like the riots in the land, the second Civil War when Brown decisions set free Middle Passage ghosts, free so blacks could own corners, drive whites to the hills, suburbs choking with Nigerian petroleum, back to Africa again for investment capital, triangles of oil, dope, experimental drugs, mosquitoes drove whites upland to count votes when the cities turned black and black mayors won the empty space of abandoned plantations, mosquitoes, insects with some grand connection to God, wings pulled apart by children who voted the first black man to oversee a country tearing its own guts apart to escape history.

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