What Did I Do? Cup

What Did I Do? CupWords: Danez SmithImage: Klai BrownCup Design: Nick MoenPorcelain 3 7/8" x 4" x 3 3/8" with decal, 14 fl ozFor the longevity of your decal, please avoid the dishwasher.Please note that cups are made to order. Your cup will ship within 3-4 weeks. Pictured is the front and back of one cup. Danez Smith quote on the inside of the lip reads, "What did I do? What did I do? Be born? Be black? Meet you?" Danez Smith The quote on the cup is pulled from a poem I wrote called "summer, somewhere". The poem is all about imagining a paradise like afterlife exclusive to black men who have been murdered while commenting on the possibly and/or frequently dystopic current reality we live in. I hope never to put words in the dead's mouth, but I think the ghost have questions for the world and the people that killed them.   Klai BrownI designed the surface of the cup with images of 6 deaths of Black Americans by police officers with the hopes of keeping the discussion of police shootings