You get what you pay for: essays

Start at the beginning --

At night --

Are we not entertainers? --

Black people don't go to therapy --

Everything is a slave ship --

We got jokes --

George Bush doesn't care about black people --

"Human being" --

Watch her rise & reign --

Self help --

Upended --

Coda: August --

Plantations --

A bale of cotton, for example --

Diaspora begins at home --

Everything is (still) a slave ship -- Wedding season (Nocturne for Sandra Bland) --

National emergencies --

We in the money --

Reparations (or, strategies for boat repair) --

Refrain and refrain and refrain: July [untitled because who cares?] --

Cheaper than therapy.