We are buried beneath the weight of information, which us being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. -Tom Waits
When Life Gives You Lemons
Here I am, back from the dead. I know, I know, where have you been? What's been keeping you away and so preoccupied. And to be honest, the answer is writer's block. A professor in university once told me "if you're having trouble writing, starting reading." So I have been, and that's what's been keeping... Continue Reading →
On Endings
Every January, we come together culturally and sing a song of new years and New Yous. We diet and exercise and idealize and hope. On the 1st of January we chant our mantras of new beginnings, while the night before we gorged ourselves and said goodbye to old years and Old Yous. In January when... Continue Reading →
Older
I’m at point in my life where those close to me are navigating similar complex problems and either don’t have the energy to check in and chat or prefer to avoid conversations about challenges altogether.
10.04.22
glassware reminds me of school dances and plastic cups dreams of future elsewheres of clothes that are mine, worn and wrinkled by my heat of dancing and songs of cheers coral cocktails, how sweet adulthood seems
29.12.21
“later, love” said in a whisper standing at the door tomorrow now farther than ever my body yearns for your weight.
On Self-Preservation
I need people to stop thinking I’m indestructible. I need them to realize that I bleed like everyone else, I cry like everyone else I feel like everyone else. I am not the Messiah, I am not the leader, I am not the blueprint, or the source of all things. These two breasts cannot breast-feed... Continue Reading →
On Water – Part I
Tears I remember when crying was the result of any and everything. Elation, rage, hope and hopelessness. Now I am an empty well. Is that what happens? I heard you harden as you age, dry up, lose the sensibilities of youth. I can’t cry anymore. Where has my water gone?Heavy eyes on my face begging... Continue Reading →
On Enoughness
Side Chick / Side of Fries They Went Home They went home and told their wives,that never once in all their lives,had they known a girl like me,But... They went home. They said my house was licking clean,no word I spoke was ever mean,I had an air of mystery,But... They went home. My praises were... Continue Reading →
Famous Last Words 