Posts
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Watching
I am up
with the sun,
an ancient plate
in danger of breaking
holds pancakes
and fruit.
I wait
I watch.
The earliest wakers
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I'll Remember Us
I still
can't believe
you're leaving.
Gone
now
is the right word.
We haven't talked
in who knows
how long
but,
do you remember?
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Stories Are Funny
Isn't it funny
how you can write
your life's story
with a realization
that changed your world
and have no one
ever read it?
Isn't it funny
Loves
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What They Call Ghetto, We Call Home
They call it “the hood.”
We call it family.
They call it “ghetto.”
We call it culture.
It’s loud — but it’s home.
The ice cream truck rings at the same time every day.
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Aftermath
Silence after screaming was even worse.
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The Girl With Too Much Passion
Once upon a time you were the girl with too much passion.
You tried your very hardest to be in love with the world,
and it made you beautiful.
But you lost that person to love,
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Lonely Rhymes
Today I thought I looked pretty
It must have been a trick of the light
I can't fall asleep in this city
I wish that you'd come stay the night.
Last week I talked to you for hours
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Safe space
Tears
But you can’t see them.
Maybe you feel them, though
In my forced smile
In my eyes
Teacher to student, but you’ve never made it feel like that
You’ve always made us feel like equals
