intelligence
you think time stops because you figure something out like how your ex bf sings for tiny women & since you’re tall his love for you was never true Read more
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Pride or Bust
a mama walks against the wind protecting her baby and its head but the mama looks at me like I was the hurricane instead. i gave her the benefit of the doubt—knowing how much, like the tornado, I have blared and blown! all the while Nas and the Marleys be Read more
twenty years
twenty years you’ve been gone & that’s just how long you’ve been dead in life you were gone, too i was a pool you’d drown in if you got your feet wet you kept your feet dry how hard to hold the truth like a bitter seed under your tongue Read more
A Weekend with You
We spent a weekend together. I was who you wanted and you were who I wanted. But it wasn’t real. There was an overwhelming feeling of desire and lust that I couldn’t get rid of. You took care of that. And I took care of you. But I didn’t account Read more
The Day I Quit School (Two Years Before I Was Expelled)
1.1 Falstaff, hoodless, gathers senior pages three quarters removed from postmodern squirehood: apprenticeship, union dues, parental woes, truck payments, beer tabs & dive pubs & splinters eat their futures like famished gluttons chewing new recipes. Encircled, he blathers-on long-winded, demonstrating chattermark removal from 4×4 timbers. Band saw blades buzz, decapitating Read more
BODY JUSTICE 1977
The university doctor examined me. Then all of his students examined me. “As you can see,” he explained, “the uterus is tipped, making bringing a fetus to term unlikely.” After I had dressed and sitting in his office we had a conversation. “The risk of miscarriage is high.” “I’ve already Read more
The Rape of Your Road
Will there ever be a channel in his mind’s eye to turn off the required rhetoric of abating an abuser as not just a loser but a gentrified angst ridden scapegoat of pharmaceutical liability that transgresses into the game of creating enemies and scenarios of unrepenting jargon that infiltrates the Read more