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.

sunset blvd east

i wanna be adored
by multiple niggas
at the same time
next question.

feeling alive
never crossed
my mind
now that you ask

only two more stops
three more flights
five more mouths to
feed and then BED

the stupid yellow
string isn’t working
the stupid yellow
string isn’t working

hm hmm. hm
hm hm uh uh
spider bite tree
apple sauce flee

8 pm already
god damn god damn
viet nam HOT DAMN
pancakes for dinner

poem for my loves

you already know what it is
so i don’t gotta let you know that
i say your name like a prayer every night

you already seen what it’s about
so no use cluing you in
counting the breaths til we meet again

you’ve got the gist so
i won’t bore you with the details
of how much i missed

you already know what it is
so i don’t have to tell
but what the hell
I LOVE YOU