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letter to a friend #3
I received a letter the other day.
It was red.
Its voice was red.
I read it aloud
and was dead.
i am
i am
the love you gave me
the lover you made
me i’m sorry i failed you
i am
the one who paid me
the money you gave
me i’m sorry i failed you
i am
your favorite lady
i think the story you told
me i’m sorry i failed you
rumors
riots and rumors
of riots
of a war
rum-punch cakes
rummaging ruminating
on it
whispers of a war
of THE central problem
of life
inklings of it
in the air
where?
where next? where to?
word is
here
two pigeons
Two pigeons walked single file through the metro doors like they were human.
I noticed they didn’t pay their fare. Typical.
don’t & say
let’s don’t and say we did
as in
let’s don’t fuck
and say we did
let’s don’t suck
and say we did
let’s don’t know
and say we did
let’s do and say we don’t
as in
let’s play and say we won’t
let’s cry and say we can’t
let’s die and say we lived
babble on paths
do you want to be rich
or have a habitable earth?
do you want to be famous
or have air to breathe
choose choose choose choose
bob marley say
revelation is revolution
reveals the truth
say choose choose
do you want the five eyes
to starve so you can thrive?
do you want your sisters
dead or alive
choose choose choose choose
this is love this is love this is love
messy girl
I’m a messy girl in a messy room. To be fair, I live in a very messy country. Place. I don’t like to say country. Gives this place too much credit. This place could change, and become a country. A nation of nations to redeem the land and the people. Just like I could clean my room.
I walk around but I can never seem to take the same path. What is that? I’m distracted. I walk around but I go a different way. Cul-de-sac. Palm tree. Broken bottle. I go a different way.
It must be so hard to be a parent, especially now. Like, aren’t you scared? I think a lot of people are, kid or not. I know I am.
I question happy endings. Endings more than happiness. What in human/geo/astro time tells us that anything ever ends? There are more beginnings than endings. Where a river ends it also begins.
The Human Zoos of Modernity
Greetings! Following the writing of Dionne Brand in The Blue Clerk, I recently wrote a piece about the human zoos of modernity for the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice (where I’m an articles editor). Click the link here to read Part I. Parts II and III will be coming out later this week.
here come the coyote
here come the coyote
down the mountainside
here come the coyote
see them stride
here come the coyote
down the little hill
here come the coyote
see how they chill
see how they play
in the past or today
mirrors of our future past
coyote is really a gas
coyote is really a scream
awoooioooiooiooooooo
see what i mean?
Aida Rends 