Eve (Interlude) - Jamila Woods

I love my name

My mother thought of that name

Um, the story that she tells is

She was walking down Belmar Avenue

And it was the middle of the day

And she was by herself and she was pregnant with me

And she said that she just heard a voice in her head

And, um, it was just, I guess, me talking before I was born

And telling her that that’s what my name was

So sometimes I like to think that I named myself

Ha ha ha, with the name that I signalled to her

That that was what my name already was