Grownfolk Blues
bill collectors find me no matter where I move
been eyeing some comfortable dr. scholl’s shoes
google med school for every bump & bruise
webmd say I’m gon die by tues
pocket list full of endless to-dos
options …
Features
He doesn’t lock the mask every rehearsal. There are some days I say, I can’t, not today, not for all those hours. Attached to the mask is a rope that sways down my back and dangling from the rope …
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Much has only gotten worse. In 2015, by the count of the people at the Gun Violence Archive, there were 335 mass shootings. (This term continues to have no set definition. For the GVA it is “four or more shot …
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Poetry
Moonrise; Rain; Night falls so impatiently; & Come in, please!, translated from the Chinese by the author
Night falls so impatiently
Rhapsody on a theme of Fang Si
Ah night
night falls so impatiently
do not sing a mournful song
do not capture me with melancholy
do not interrogate me with questioning eyes
I only sigh
Poetry
December 1: Ginkgos; In the Late Afternoon: Two Moments; & Memo to Self: Ten Reasons for Love
Memo to Self: Ten Reasons for Love
1. Go ahead and fill your life with love
Let it be hot cocoa in February
Make it water from a cold outdoor spigot
When mama Gaia turns up the burning heat
PROLOGUE
Anton de Kom (1898–1945) was a Surinamese political activist and author of the 1934 book We Slaves of Suriname, the first decolonial account of the nation’s history. He lived in The Hague and was married to Petronella Borsboom, …
Read MoreIt wasn’t a real bar. It was a makeshift place, a crowded room in the back of someone’s house. Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” played softly in the background, softly because they didn’t want to attract attention, though …
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When my swim coach, an elderly man with a Dean of Something or Other job sexually harassed me, I let it go. It wasn’t like he was really harassing harassing. Just asking us to twirl in front of his desk …
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Forty-nine-year-old Yumi Kobayashi is not ashamed to say she is obsessed with League of Legends, an online video game in which the typical player demographic is a seventeen-year-old maladjusted boy who smells like funk and nihilism.
Actually this is not …
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