how alike we are but could not prove it to you because even if we met it would not be enuf only time fuses us never got that time and so resigned to it (now) I once believed in fate, but (now) I believe in it more. Contingency. Fact is, you’re not in control whatContinue reading “Untitled Ambiguous Poem”
Author Archives: aidarends
Poem In Honor of Pedro Pietri
My professor vibed me out While I was trying to avoid the truth Of the matter of the mass Of smoking grass on Sunday afternoon For Pedro drunken poet of my dreams Who wrapped his words in wisdom painful alcoholism The drunkard’s final words were: Go get me some wine while yr at it DecantedContinue reading “Poem In Honor of Pedro Pietri”
Untitled Love Poem
i feel safer on a clean bus feel cleaner on a safe bus feel darker on a bad day feel badder on a dark day bad bad girl can’t stay awake no more she sleeps on the ground / park yr ass! park yr ass on the grass for today can’t stay awake randomsoliloquie dancingContinue reading “Untitled Love Poem”
CWTTY+ by (Liv).e – Review
In the midst of the ongoing nightmare that is the COVID-19 pandemic, (Liv).e released the gorgeous Couldn’t Wait to Tell You… It knocked my socks off. I watched the entire livestream of the album release party. My partner, who I was living with at the time, soon became sick-to-death of my endless re-listening. It struckContinue reading “CWTTY+ by (Liv).e – Review”
letter to a friend
i dream about you a lot. i don’t tell you because i don’t want you to get the right idea. when i take journeys in my dreams sometimes you will accompany me and sometimes i will encounter you on the way. you never say anything. i wonder if this means you’re talking and i’m notContinue reading “letter to a friend”
twilight of the dolls
at dawn when i can trick my brain into thinking it’s dusk and vice-versa how joyous it is to know we die so that we may live i will not meet you again but how joyous it is to know i would die for you every day people are already fleeing this place even asContinue reading “twilight of the dolls”
two steps into luv
i’m stepping into luv i’m choosing always always will luv you always always i set the stone down, finally kept the pieces i needed skipped the surface tensions and fortunes built in caverns and conflict was in vogue again set still in the palm of trees in the mirth of oceans in the fabulous generosityContinue reading “two steps into luv”
when a feeling hurts you have to listen
when a feeling hurts you have to listen otherwise who knows what pinpricks devour you like so many locations on a map saturated and bubbling up on each other when you feel slighted u oughta take a slight pause so as to not react reacted far too often my body fatigued by watchfulness it’s betterContinue reading “when a feeling hurts you have to listen”
Review of Reviews
Why can’t you just talk about yr favorite parts? Always false concern. You didn’t make it. Make it new: “Quotation is a sign of humility.” Falsetto stains yr voice. Careful now. “But yr so lovely when yr delicate.” I’m so not. “But isn’t it sweet to try.” I don’t follow.
Theory by Dionne Brand
“There are multiple reasons why I find myself in the situation of not having completed my dissertation; on the other hand, I believe one ought to take stock of one’s own bullshit.” Theory, the latest novel by Dionne Brand, begins and ends with this footnote. The unnamed, ungendered narrator retells three romances over the courseContinue reading “Theory by Dionne Brand”
Aida Rends 