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The Silence After Your Read this Poem is Political
Ignoring your symptoms and coming to work because a paycheck that’s eight hours short won’t let you replace your shoes with cracked soles for another month is political. The number of PTO hours you’re allowed is political. Whether it takes two months or three of missed rent before you’re living in the street is political.… Continue reading
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Warmth is Adjacent to Beauty
In the winter, moments worthy of pause are so scarce, I train myself to be more discerning at spotting miracles. Today, someone has replaced with red roses yesterday’s white chrysanthemums in the Lebanese restaurant I pass each day to go to work. Maybe they get their flowers from the florists across the street. (The one… Continue reading
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I can’t outrun the machine no matter how early I get up or how many lunches I pack
“Make a list of your expenses; sort them into either needs or wants and in times of financial trouble, cut back on the wants” is an advice for a simpler time. I’m working class in the heart of empire in 2025. My list of expenses fall into either “things I’ll die if I go without… Continue reading
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Vulnerability
How much more freely and more often would we create if we could always be this, a tad too honest and a tad too hopeful for the tastes of the world, showing up for the parts of ourselves that are insecure or bothered or unfinished, the canvas jarred by interruptions, the language naked with need.… Continue reading
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These Living Languages
Our languages are hanging around Gen Z and the millennial great-grandchildren of Shakespeare who wait on tables and be on their phones on cigarette breaks, captioning memes. These attention-conscious hungry languages snacking on worlds, digesting the human experience, growing like weeds passing words among them like joints mixing and matching outfits to walk the ramps… Continue reading
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Four of Diamonds
The Oracle’s loyalty is with your destiny.If you ask her about the future,she will lie.She will say what you need to hearto put you in the state of mindrequired to take the steps that willlead you to what’s meant to be.She will say, for instance,if you give it time and just practiceDiamonds by Rihanna on… Continue reading
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90 Minutes
Between 5 and 9 I amfrying cracking scrambling seasoning pouring kneading rolling baking sandwich-bagging lunchboxing plating pouring scooping brewing sweetening waking waking waking reminding negotiating yelling soothing feeding bathing dressing toothbrushing hairbrushing time-checking weather-checking synchronizing bus-chasing street-crossing Between 10:30 and 8 I amscheduling calling texting phone-answering greeting teaching reporting asking listening executive functioning anxiety-managing people-managing… Continue reading
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We have screamed together. We are now sisters.
Just think of me as your human liaison with the void. You are safe here, in the dark, amniotic silence we have created in the heart of the mad city in the country of mad cities. And so is your truth. And so are your wounds, in all their spectrum between healed and newly inflicted.… Continue reading
Rampant & Golden 