"Preferred landfill of the city" is taken from lines 10 and 11 of the poem "Speaking with hands".
Going back a little to line 1 of the poem, the author points out that there is no market in Watts, and then says that people bought what they should in a small market.
By definition, a landfill means a place where waste or materials are buried or dumped, so the authors use the imagery to illustrate just how awful Watts is as a neighborhood in relation to the rest of the city. trying to define what was city.
In other words, it was a slum where the people of the city would throw away things that were thrown away. [see lines 24-27]
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