Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
We met in Paris many years ago now Right away she befriended me, I’m not sure how. Twelve years difference, but I felt I knew her. Where she came from I couldn’t at first be sure. I overheard her say to a student, “Je suis belge,” And I was mystified, Read more
Here you have it Right down your temple A clipped chip Smelling like nothing In which untouchable is your imagination And you heard it A tiny explosion in the ear A season of fine snow Deleting your eyes of preciousness It is hard To be articulate As consciousness Emergent In Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
He looks my way as we sit in the chain salon awaiting our haircuts, and I wonder if “my way” is at me, since he repeats the twists of neck—but my eyes cannot certify since I keep them down on my phone and remember a friend of adolescence who would Read more
