Small creature, why are you here?
The forest is only a minute away,
and yet you chose concrete.
Did you die of fear?
Small creature, I cannot be so bold
as to stop and lift you into grass
for I have commitments
Did you die old?
Small creature, on cement you lay prone
feet in the air, nose up
food for some passing hawk
Did you die alone?
Apr 10, 2023
Apr 10, 2023 at 9:44 AM UTC
Guys like us don't get breaks
with our unshaven faces and manky hair and eyeliner.
Our work-torn jeans colorful tattoos and pierced lips a warning,
Aposematism in human form.
Guys like us don't get breaks
We claw and drag our way not to the top,
but to the surface.
Ain't got no daddy's money.
Ain't got no daddy, or wish we didn't
cause he comes home
talking 'bout how he didn't raise no ******
(He didn't raise nobody).
Guys like us don't get breaks.
Nothing but mildewy rooms
McDonalds for dinner washed
down with cheap *****
Another Thank you for applying but...
Rent due the 24th.
alone at night again.
Guys like us don't get breaks.
Apr 20, 2022
Apr 20, 2022 at 2:41 PM UTC
-Hey Jake,
You know how we like to hang upside down
y'know with our toes, on the beams
in abandoned
warehouses?
How we haven't eaten
in weeks, or slept?
How God
has abandoned us, and every
day I wake up in mortal terror knowing that my suffering is eternal?
what's with that?
-Michael, we're literally vampires.
Shut the **** up and go to sleep.
Apr 20, 2022
Apr 20, 2022 at 2:24 PM UTC
I applied under my legal name.
No way around it really, so I'll have to tell the truth later.
Policy, taxes, W-2's blah,
all I know is that neither the government
or the corporation cares that I stopped being a girl at least 5 years ago (even though the pride merch is filling the front).
It's for the more presentable queers.
Those white, married gays and lesbians moving into the suburbs with their kids and white picket fences and their acceptable bodies.
No trans flag in sight, just gaudy rainbow after gaudy "love wins".
Where's my prize?
Same-sex marriage doesn't help when I decide whether to *** like a man or a woman.
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021 at 8:26 PM UTC
Wait! I'm not finished.
Don't tear it away from me
I can fix it.
I can fix this. Just let me
dig through what's left.
Something has to be left.
Right?
Right?
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021 at 8:24 PM UTC
Summer fills me with nostalgia in a way that I cant explain. But when the air hears up and the black ants crawl all over our house I find myself remembering when we covered the window with sheets so we could sleep when it was still light.
Most years I was alone, friends not good enough to contact outside of school.
I stayed up late in bed reading every night. It was during summer that I stumbled on my first podcast, on my first ****** novel, on my first question of gender.
In the heat of summer I sought change. Alone, I struggled with questions of college and career and the future. I despaired, sobbing into my pillow until I fell asleep.
Summer is full of possibility, of the past, of the future.
I caught fireflies out on the lawn, I put cicada husks in a jar and kept a tally, I invented games for myself and my sisters. I work late nights and come home to a warm house. I eat cereal for 3 meals a day.
The rules don't apply to Summer.
Jun 10, 2021
Jun 10, 2021 at 12:14 AM UTC
Little glass axolotl perfect
shades of pink and orange.
Found him at the thrift store
brought him home &
shone him up with some
windex and a cotton cloth.
Now he sits on the shelf
and sometimes I pick him
up to marvel at the smoothness
of his back, and the perfectly formed gills
at the sides of his head.
My little glass axolotl
is one of the things that
pulls me through papers
with his tiny smile and
teensy toes. This is love caught in
silica and pigment. Yes this
is what love is.
Apr 15, 2021
Apr 15, 2021 at 1:28 PM UTC
i spent
the afternoon on the
lawn in a clover patch
plucking the 4th leaf off
because last month
was so clouded
and i shone too bright
too gaudy
but now i'm here
fixing these little ********
taking their 4th
leaving 3
increasing their chance of survival
like i did with that worm
on the sidewalk this morning
i
picked her up and
hurled her into grass and
I didn't look back.
sometimes salvation is violent.
Apr 12, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
Mar 18, 2021 at 9:30 AM UTC
The noise builds all around me
the sun comes bouncing in,
2 hours of sleep
5 cups of coffee
and I sit waiting to begin
The ticker-tape keeps running
while the record spins
5 months to go
1 person shut-in
and they are trying to begin.
I sit here and I contemplate on all my recent big mistakes
since I like to procrastinate I'm quite deserving of this fate
And so I tap my pencil faster I don't know quite what I'm after
All I know is that this chapter of my life ends in disaster!
My mind does tarantella
my concentration thins
1 new idea
12 words per hour
and I can't make myself begin
Oh, how do I begin?
Aug 14, 2020
Aug 14, 2020 at 5:38 PM UTC