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sensación de fin de semana / end of the week feeling
(disclaimer: i am not a fluent or native Spanish speaker, obviously. i just enjoy it and am learning it in school so i thought i'd share a short poem i wrote in class.)
jueves
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camouflage slip-ons
whatever shoes i was given back then i could not possibly let go of.
it was unfathomable. it was an outrage
that the light-up ones, the purple sandals,
even the astronaut rainboots had to go. i wanted them,
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favorite food (s)
Since I could eat, I have loved eating. Since I could open
my mouth and shriek for sustenance I have been in love with food.
And it has always loved me back -
tacos, grilled cheese, steak, sushi, matzo ball soup,
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we will not be silenced
because we cannot do this again.
we are tired of giving our lives up
so you can play at governance.
we are tired of pretending that war is a toy
you can wind up and watch. 28.5 million lives
Loves
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where it doesn't wait.
I keep checking
the places happiness once sat,like a pocket
I’ve already turned inside out. -
Improbability
Oh, no, I’m not here
For a reason.
It’s an almost comforting thingThe fleck of light of a chance
The infinite things
That had to go right.
If I were a different person -
What You Didn’t Know
You see a mother and her daughter —
Both smiling, both beautiful, both whole.
What you don’t see is the message sitting in her pocket,
Telling her that her husband isn’t coming home from war.
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scheduled landing
We met like passengers
assigned to the same row
close enough to share armrests,
not a destination. -
A quiet border
We lie inches apart,
faces turned from one another,
like two commas in the same sentence
that never connect.
