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Poison of Choice

March.7.2018

Let’s talk, before the layers, the peeling back—the sound it makes when you put a knife to the comfort responses …

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“Shoot the Vagina”

March.6.2018

(My response to President Duterte of the Philippines giving orders to his soldiers to shoot female rebels on their privates.) …

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The Design in which we Intertwine

December.10.2017

I. Coexisting, an erasure poem, wash of black and unwanted phrases sent back to the chaos, strangers and intention’s second …

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Nights of Tokhang

September.14.2017

(As of posting this, at least 13,000 people have been killed in the Philippines under Operation Tokhang, including minors, children …

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Humanity

September.13.2017

For one of our Humanities II discussions in the summer of 2001, our professor, a burly, bespectacled man with geometric …

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Weaponized Frailty

July.18.2017

I’ve seen that blind devotion many times, like butterflies drunk on the summer heat unique and unforgettable in their sincerity, …

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Spare Me Your Righteous Hypotheticals

June.4.2017

Bring me your judgements, the ones edging your quick eyes and loaded silences, speak them, you might as well the …

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Righteous Indignation and her Long, Dark Hair

May.8.2017

Like a phosphorescence, locus of commuted light- ness, ruth and raw instinct spreading their legs to freedom, …….giving birth to …

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The Night Trumpcare Passed in Congress

May.7.2017

The blue-black sky looms heavy over the orange city lights phantom claws of Lake Michigan rip through wind tunnels paved …

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Springtime in the South Side

April.20.2017

The sky is a stray bullet and the buses are late night in broad daylight a witness an accomplice about …

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