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Honest Open Passionate Exiting

Response to Jericho by Iniko Don’t get high, but I’ll ride it out with you. I might be from earth, but I don’t discriminate. I’m closin’ in, feel your distance. I’m your ride or die Take your hand, and brave the waves. If it meant…

Trees, leaves, bees Breathe. Avocado Green. I dream In spanish. Agüacate. Cacahuate  Tomatillo o jitomate. Choco Loco Choco-latte I am maize I am raiz I am Gorky Gonzales With 40 nopales Dropped out of college Start slanging tamales In Watts or in Juarez I’m wearing…

my brain sits in my skull like a scrambled egg The Idea Center a blue screen, frozen I wish I could get to sleep fast I definitely rely too much on one or another bottle whether it’s ZzzQuil or a beer, I find myself angry…

My mother is a good person but not as pretty as most mom’s Her hands are gnarled and bumpy her backs not straight or strong Her hair is thin not lush and long her teeth have been long gone If her teeth were white and…

A world not like this In a world not like this, a wondrous dream, A place where rainbows in the sky gleam, The sun’s gentle warmth, a constant embrace, Where raindrops fall, but not a single trace. Trees adorned with fruits, branches bending low, Shrubs…

They should create a me that is normal; I think that would be really cool. They should create a life that is bearable, easy sleep, a winter that doesn’t feel like decay, a spring that doesn’t feel like the past, a head that doesn’t hurt,…

John Steinbeck once wrote a letter to Marilyn Monroe A humorous missive Underwood pica wishing her autograph on behalf of his teen nephew-in-law her lovestruck admirer That one of the greatest American writers sent a humorous note to America’s most famous sex symbol on behalf…

  Theory of parallel universes.   Dear gods [substitutes for  brain], You gave us a thought where We’re both here and there in The same instances. Existence. A theory found with the entire Science. Milky Way to infinity. I’m black means there’s as much Possibilities…