Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
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How dare you… how dare you Choose her over me This cunning vampire in the Dark Mood Disorder Whore For those few days a week when she whispers in your ear When she dms you… come and sit with me When she sends you the video of her lower legs with Knee High Socks and […]
The fields are gone, the chains remain, Now they brand you with debt and shame. Cotton mills turned to glass and steel, You’re free but can’t afford a meal. Railroad kings laid tracks of gold, On stolen earth, their fortunes rolled. Crypto kings now stake their claim, Lady Liberty weeps in shame. Oh, this land […]
Adios (sung on tremolo) Evelyn – Why are you not A sun-carved shape Predictable as a Windowless stone I could hug you into my Bones Even if your hair might lure with serpents I could kiss your feet for the longest minute Relish without a second of hesitation Print me against you Evelyn Make me […]
When you get to be my age, you reflect on how you spent your time here on earth, the people you loved, the ones you didn’t, the dreams you wove, and the ones that unraveled. What you see is a study in personal evolution. If you’re lucky, your life was lived by choice and not […]
When I watch you, and I mean… watch you Like a stalker at poetry readings I am at first engaged, noticing the enunciation You do, the measured beat, the drum like inevitability Of your cascading words And then I sink into you I feel selfish, like the words are for me And that each syllable […]
after Anne Sexton Some ghosts are old lovers, older now than when he stepped on your heart, leaving a red smear on your 20s. He tries to float but can’t quite, looks past you from his spot on the sidelines. Not all ghosts are men— there’s your mother: skimming the […]
I’m just a girl living vicariously Grew up in a black and white world That’s against me. Had big dreams to go far Then life hit so freaking hard. I relapsed into my old self Tearing the pieces of the Life I lived well. Wishing to go back Instead of living in this hell. I […]
Your mother is soft tissue like rabbit ready for stew. Your mother is murder, she just doesn’t know it yet. Your mother is long rambling speech patterns. Your mother is perfect oval shapes. Your mother is god-like and fickle. Your mother is suffering. Your mother is seven miles uphill. Your mother is whining. Your mother […]
When we talk about grief, people often imagine it arrives like a thunderclap in the very moment a loved one dies, followed by an immediate aftermath and the early tears. But for many of us who’ve lived it, grief isn’t loud. Sometimes it simmers quietly for years, showing up as anxiety, guilt, numbness, or bone-deep […]
Today we celebrate the monsoon. Will we then come to hate the monsoon? All night, I danced with him in the rain. What could it not create, the monsoon. She thought of love as flood. Was she wrong? By then it was too late. The monsoon. Clouds wear black masks and carry guns, wash us […]
