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The LGBTQ+ Center
I went to the LGBTQ+ youth center for the first time.
For a year
I stared at the website,
wanting nothing more than to go.
When I finally went, on a Wednesday,
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Odds and Ends
Trying to write a poem
All attempts are incomplete
Half finished
Lines scribbled out
Second guessing every sentence.
A page of unfinished thoughts
Random lines.
They make zero sense.
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The Hat
One day
I crocheted a hat
I don’t really know
Why
or
When
But the hat became
A constant companion.
Loves
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'this'
Resist.
Intransitive verb: to exert force in opposition
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B O N E S
These are my bones-
Perfectly structured, pristine white.
Here, take my skull, that forever grinning phantom reminder,
And keep it in the gold chest that sits by your fireplace.
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we are the future.
in the halls, we lean against the bulletin boards
and whisper of the latest news, last night's breaking, articles snagged
in the moments before leaving for school. lots of adults
think we are too young to understand
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Fashionably Early
Everyone could make excuses
for when the bears showed up late
to the party
fashionably late
they called it
but when the bears came early
no one
could explain the questions
away.
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Stuck
I know two different worlds
My little one in my little town with little problems
And the big one
With big problems
Everywhere else
When I want to join the big world
Be known there
