“Those are just lovely, thank you so much, dear. I’ll see if I can find someone to get some water for those. Well, now let me see, it had to be over twenty years ago. You were very small then, I bet you hardly remember him. Your grandfather was the love of my life. He […]
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Magic
It’s 2:34 AM when we go to IHOP. It’s when the syrup is sloppy and won’t stay on our plates and the marionberry reduction is heavier on one side than the other. I don’t ask why we’re here. Not at first. “Did you know that marionberries were created in Oregon?” “No. That’s pretty cool,” you […]
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Hits and Lighters
Songs glorified my life. Too many pretty white boys played victim with love as a smoking gun. Sweet melodies without weed. I switched stations. Rap was catchier. Rappers worth a cent of clout got rich off of suburban wanna-be gangsters. Little kids with Nerf guns who didn’t know any better. I never listened to music. […]
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Sunny Day 20/20
children’s playgrounds become crime scenes bound in yellow plastic tape swings creaking in the empty breeze horseshoe pits wrapped in black plastic body bags rebar stakes through their hearts the baseball diamond empty no one to spit or slide the basketball court stripped naked the only shadow, the metal bar not holding its basket white […]
My skin, Like the seasons, it changes color. In the winter, my skin is an unsaturated, pale brown With spots that look darker than the other. In the summer, my skin radiates deep golden hues, It illuminates and gently toasts I am a reflection of the sun. My pigment is rooted from my ancestors, Who […]
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