We recycle turn-key phrases like Grandma’s trusted recipes, like bubblegum wrappers, like red party cups, like sex. But it works. It works. Because the moment is always fresh. And I think we’re only running out of things to say because words don’t really matter anyways. I’d rather have your heart, babe. I’d rather have all [...]
I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives / [...] can see / At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives / Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea / [...] I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs / Perceived the scene, and foretold the rest– / I too awaited the expected guest. -excerpted [...]
An Open-Letter to my Rapist Dear AE, You ask why I’m not calling or texting or staying in touch. You ask why I’ve disappeared right before I’m supposed to come out for a visit. My answer? It’s simple, really. April is Rape Awareness Month. You are a rapist. You raped me. You violated me. You [...]
Cocooned by your cologne You steal my hands away Before these arms can Wrap around your waist And pull you close to kiss. [Translate]
It’s a raven at the windowsill. Your hand tight at my throat again, your voice screaming my eyes shut. When I’m not in an-other’s orbit, the world is desolate and devoid of meaning. Forgetting. Forget. And the forgotten. Grocery list interrupted with perfect cut-scenes of shrieks. Horror on repeat. We are mimetic. Our reality is mimetic. We [...]
April 24, 2010
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