poem
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I live in this world where I am constantly holding back never saying what I want to say for fear of making others mad I wish I were braver that I could say the truth to people I want to but I don’t think they’d even listen to me No one listens to me I…
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We were the ones writing the history books shaping it with our media history has been our narrative yet we have forgotten to look at the history of ourselves our first President had teeth made from slaves We are not the heroes we have made ourselves out to be We have always been villains it…
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I only talked about it once then never again and the truth of it is a relationship sounds like a nightmare to me I know too much about power dynamics guns in the bottoms of wells hidden bank accounts punched holes in walls and birth control messed with men leaving a woman with seven mouths…
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And I am basic Existing in the smallness of what little security I have Alone in my little apartment I think of revolutions without doing a single thing I think of women that came before me that shook the worlds around them painting when the world told them not to educating themselves in a world…
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What if I were a little bit bolder? What if I were a little bit meaner? And I don’t even mean meaner I simply mean being direct What if I took as much as a man? Swore as much as a man? Was as angry as a man? What then? Would I reach my full…
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I should have coffee in the morning and a spouse to make breakfast for kids to take to school and a house with a blue door but I have none of those things I am a thirty-something that never quite adjusted to time passing bye how did I get here? I am a Stevie Nicks…
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They used $22.Billion to bomb school children all to get the gas prices down and they’ll say it’s money well spent Saw six potholes today in my town that haven’t been fixed for years I know a lot of the kids at the high school in my neighborhood have lunch debt and won’t afford college…
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I started watching horror films because at least I know those are fake and at least someone will survive I can’t say that when I look on Instagram at my phone and see the death tolls I saw college students’ protest Lockheed & Martin and the deaths of innocent people created by them and someone…
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The thing of it is, he’s selling art now and his legacy is protected the thing of it is, he’s getting out of prison soon after using the media to con us into being on his side when he’s proven to be a menace to society the thing of it is, he’s in the highest…
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I start my morning with the daily news Sometimes it’s red Sometimes it’s black And sometimes it’s blue Maybe someday Somewhere, The Continental will give you your do at least I know the Central Park Angels don’t watch over you but the devils are looking for you