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Heading Home

Matthew Watson is a queer artist/poet whose work centers on beauty amid ugly and painful experiences. He graduates from SOU in the spring, glad to be a part of this creative cohort.

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Études

Matthew Watson is a queer artist/poet whose work centers on beauty amid ugly and painful experiences. He graduates from SOU in the spring, glad to be a part of this creative cohort.

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Green Fathers

⠀⠀⠀I’m 18 and I still can’t drive. But I hate staying inside, so sometimes I will walk one or two hours straight to the next city over and then add another three to account for all the zigzagging I do in between streets. I’m in Burbank again, the only city I ever walk to on […]

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I’m Floating in a Best Western Pool

⠀⠀⠀I’m floating in a Best Western pool in Northern California while Amy is dying. When the car broke down on I-5 with only 48,000 miles on it—I knew we wouldn’t make it. There is a mural with a duck about three feet tall and skylights so dirty I can’t tell if it’s overcast today. ⠀⠀⠀The […]

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How are youuuuu

⠀⠀⠀I’ve sort of moved home: a place where ‘Congradulations Class of 2020’ has been on the fire station’s interchangeable letter sign for about as long as the T R U M P flag’s flown from the pole; that’s only large enough to be census-designated because it’s filled with white people, which is also why the […]