Tag: poet

  • The System

    All of these men saying that if these were regular men they’d be in prison I had to leave my home when I was three father showed up with a gun when he found my sister, mother, and me, kidnapped my sister and me, the police did nothing, because he technically had custody, had family…

  • Mexico

    I was in my thirties, when I learned that depending on where you were, they call wars different things, In America, we have a war called the Mexican American War, the war for Texas, and I, well I am simply an Irish American woman with only a vague understanding of it all, but I think…

  • California

    Think of only happy thoughts something to make you smile absolutely nothing is wrong everything is fine my town looks the same it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine I do not wake up panicking I don’t live there anymore my state is fine nothing is fine I still have old classmates there and I wake…

  • How it happens

    It’s the friend that saw it happen at a party and said nothing It’s the bouncer at the club that knows their history and still allows them entry the employer who keeps them hired even though they have the reports in their HR desk It’s the cops that didn’t lock them up the first time…

  • Influencer

    Influencer what is that a snake-oil salesman selling words, products, themselves, an ideology whatever you want from me all for a dollar it’s a talent, they say is it, really? stand still, look pretty, say what they want you to say I speak, I exist, and I have people telling me to delete myself I…

  • Thoughts and Prayers

    All of our thoughts are with the victims and where are the guilty parties in palaces and mansions and not a single one in prison

  • Speak Now

    You know, the first thing America did was not believe a black woman, they accused her of witchcraft, all because she wasn’t like them, and when she wouldn’t say what they wanted, they tortured her until she agreed to what they said, and they teach the witch trials as a silly, hysterical thing, but our…

  • Nothing new

    This is nothing new, slave, serf, vessel, employee, parishioner, the terms have changed, but the game has not, we’ll take a piece of you, again and again, and you’ll worship us in the end, and thank us for the trouble, in taxes, in blood, in honor and glory, we’ll stomp on your corpses, from our…

  • Off with their heads

    And what is the point of being a good girl if they only look at you as an incubator and not a real person someone to get off from I do not have to look I can’t stop this is not my tragedy I can look away But in a way it is and every…

  • On Religion

    Lately I have found myself praying, which is laughable because I consider myself atheist, but it’s not to any Christian deity, simply whatever one will listen, and make this hell that we’re all in called America, collapse within itself, I don’t hate my country, I love it dearly, I simply want it cleansed of all…