Poison of Choice
Let’s talk, before the layers, the peeling back—the sound it makes when you put a knife to the comfort responses …
Tag Archives: society
“Shoot the Vagina”
(My response to President Duterte of the Philippines giving orders to his soldiers to shoot female rebels on their privates.) …
The Design in which we Intertwine
I. Coexisting, an erasure poem, wash of black and unwanted phrases sent back to the chaos, strangers and intention’s second …
Nights of Tokhang
(As of posting this, at least 13,000 people have been killed in the Philippines under Operation Tokhang, including minors, children …
Humanity
For one of our Humanities II discussions in the summer of 2001, our professor, a burly, bespectacled man with geometric …
Weaponized Frailty
I’ve seen that blind devotion many times, like butterflies drunk on the summer heat unique and unforgettable in their sincerity, …
Spare Me Your Righteous Hypotheticals
Bring me your judgements, the ones edging your quick eyes and loaded silences, speak them, you might as well the …
Righteous Indignation and her Long, Dark Hair
Like a phosphorescence, locus of commuted light- ness, ruth and raw instinct spreading their legs to freedom, …….giving birth to …
The Night Trumpcare Passed in Congress
The blue-black sky looms heavy over the orange city lights phantom claws of Lake Michigan rip through wind tunnels paved …
Springtime in the South Side
The sky is a stray bullet and the buses are late night in broad daylight a witness an accomplice about …
