Tag: poetry

  • Things I love

    I love Mexican food and sugar skulls mariachi music I get excited when I hear different accents I like watching flamenco dancing and had pinatas at my birthdays and watched the Selena movie a million times as a kid and got excited when I would hear her songs on the radio When I needed a…

  • The more I know

    The more I know about the world, the less I know, I was sold a certain story, and didn’t even think to look beyond, now I wonder who I would be, if somewhere else were my home, where I didn’t feel like everything was wrong, but then I think of the people in their countries,…

  • Pride and Prejudice

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that when people try to fight for the rights of others, they will come for those that do it.

  • Good little soldier

    Aren’t you a good little soldier Marched, took your orders Took your orders Blood on the street because you followed them Bombs dropped on homes because you followed them Bodies on the ground because you followed them What a good little ant you are Tying up the laces of your shiney boots Stomping on the…

  • Dear future,

    I hope we’ve learned some lessons. Hope the President isn’t an asshole. Hope the world got a little better. A little kinder. I hope we’ve made the earth less polluted. I hope you had a good year. With love, Diana Crescent

  • Parts of myself

    I started listening to Indie music again, I felt like parts of myself came back to life, I heard ones I hadn’t heard in years, It jogged old memories, hopes, and fears I am sixteen and thirty-five all at once I know everything and nothing I crave success I crave companionship But I keep on…

  • I’m not afraid of Julio

    I’m not afraid of Julio I’m not afraid of Jung I’m not afraid of Maria I’m not afraid of Zohran But I am afraid of the people that want to make me look the other way when they’re making innocent people hide and run when it’s the government pointing guns *this existed in another form…

  • Remember when people had thoughts inside of them

    I want all of the things that make people want to be me but I don’t want to be greedy I want success, I want money (I don’t need the money) Oh god, I hate that that is a lie And I don’t believe in god And I need the fucking money to survive the…

  • Don’t focus on the sad

    I should choose simple I should choose basic A nice man A cute little house I should choose anything but this But I think it might kill me if I did I wanted to be someone original And what has come from originality Everyone looks at me and shakes their heads What have you got?…

  • I’m what’s wrong

    They said just be yourself Nobody likes myself where I am I am thirty-five with no family of my own or friends I never thought of myself with a husband or kids I saw myself making it I haven’t made it But I still don’t want a husband or kids What if I don’t make…