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the fleeting moment on the bus during which i spied a dead thing and a raven
lines on the road paralyze me redefine me reignite a sort of otherworldly longing in me orange blurs into yellow blurs into black lines blink in and out of a parallel existence / red was never a factor in this but you could never chalk red into yo
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ode to washing my face in the sink
this old sink,
hanging onto the wall by a thread
and a rusted pipe,
gushes water that still runs clear,
even after the generations of girls
(in pig- and pony-tails, braids and loose)
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Chapter One - REVISED
IZIMA
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Day In The Life of a Getaway Driver
BONG. BONG. BONG. Three o'clock and all's well, I thought, peering out the front windshield of taxi 38, the black-and-yellow 2018 Toyota I've been carting New Yorkers around in every day for five years. Everybody knows me.
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Chapter One - (title unknown)*
IZIMA
Be careful, Izima.
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vacation
at least one
red white blue starry flag
big or small
billowing from the golden flagpoles that adorn
at least every house
in this country,
proclaiming
nationalism capitalism idiocy.
at least one
Loves
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Reflections of a Tired Girl
I am an enigma; forever stepping in front of mirrors attempting to angle myself in the perfect position to be loved; always making myself smaller than I seem in order to be seen.
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today
today is yesterday’s tomorrow
full of promises that linger as the sun emerges,
a warm breeze colliding against
the soft pillowy fabric of your curtains.
today is yesterday’s tomorrow
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Unbecoming
The streets have teeth and we hold our fingers with enough space for the others and drink cider on a corner where the ceiling above us blinks blue-blue-blue onto her tonsil-pink dress and someday I hope I never have to see it in a suitca
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Chapter Sixteen- That of Poison and Roses
Careful.
Careful.
Careful.
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Chapter Seven- That of Poison and Roses
Seven
Everything
Everything
Everything
is a blur.
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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