Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
Hold still while I rape you Set you on fire Slap you down Don’t move Or dream No starlight for you Receive me whenever I must Relieve my rage and lust Your body belongs to me And your soul belongs to god You own nothing Not even the dirt on Read more
Sorrow sings to men who sleep with guns Time erodes land to dust and bodies to bone Sky loses color, rivers run black How can masculinity survive? Who says it has to? My ovaries are not your mistress My hands are not your maid If you want to preach natural Read more
Leaves go Sightlines clear This is winter’s remark Leaning trees Crazy cross-hatch, we Rail against each other Now things are laid bare and Propped up Out of love’s long habit The strife will quiet as darkness Bears down Leave it until spring, the trees will Hide their torn ground, too Read more
Light rises around the sheltering house Weaves reality from dreams Draws breath from bruised lips Nudges us into the familiar Another day! Anything is possible, if not probable Water boils, coffee Brews, bread Browns, butter Goes bad, milk Sours, paper’s late again Our resolve to continue Mimics the worm’s drive Read more
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
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
sunlight egg yolk daffodils a rare diamond amber anything not alive our house a sickly skin tone bruises the car you owned when we met butter lemons fallen leaves pineapples the tie you tried to strangle me with the straw in the ice water they gave me to drink at Read more
