love and hate
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RED LINE: reflections on resistance to genocide
Genocide in any age is horrifying…for painful months, my outrage has burned–but I had not found time to do more…
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LAMENTATION
I feel disposableAn inconvenient truthLove not worthy of equityUnworthy of consideration I am on the trainCrying and mourningStrangers wonderNot knowing…
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EMBODIED VULNERABILITY
Connecting with you is like fireGenerativePowerful and movingPulsating with Platonic attractionRemembering what it feels like for a boy We live…
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WATER KING
I am ensconced in recoveryEmblazoned by surrenderRewired by these watersRivers of transformation flowing together I am the water kingAn aquatic…
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LIP BLOOD: stories of fire and water
e My lips are a place of deep conditioningMy full Black lipsSo much less perfect than my white father’sSo much…
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Letter to Ahmed
You were a pillar of my lifeFor more than twelve yearsI swam in your watersGuided by a prophetic light Your…
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REMIND ME TO FORGET
MemoriesHaunting meLeaving meNo air to breathe DestinyMysteryHaunting meTaunting me I come to writeI come to witnessHundreds of birdsFlocking to the…
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FIERCE AND FEROCIOUS
You are wired with the fire of leatherMagnifying desire with the rhythms of pleasureVisceral synergy brings our worlds togetherProjecting electricity…
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VANGUARD GRAFFITI
Colors connive as spirits reviveWe are shackled by trauma locked deep insideWe heal from our pasts and rebuild our livesThe…
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TRUST MUSCLE: a journal entry
This is my chosen place to write—it is close to my heart: my trust muscle I sit at the convergence…
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CYBERPUNK DIASPORA
dancers stomp, twist, and writhegiving voice to desires pent up deep insidewe long to rise as one and mobilizeour subaltern…
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EXTRAVAGANT ATTRACTION
your eyes make me smile and your hips make me wildthis hard house pulsation leaves me hot, hung, and wirederotic…
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BARRICADE FREAKS
we are barricade freaks rocking prada in the streetwe style our rage in platinum shades shining strong and rolling deep…
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TURBULENCE
In this moment, I am a hot mess of regret, anxiety, and desire With boundaries collapsed I don’t know how…
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TRYING NOT TO FALL
if you see me leave earlyor hesitate to make eye contactif i seem reticent to express too much affectionthat’s just…
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VIOLATION
desecration and violationtoxic psychic devastationcaustic pain is in gestationblocking love and trust and creation so much to learn if…
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LOVE SONG #4: the kygo suite
baby it hit so hard, I’m holding on to my chest maybe you left your mark, reminding me to forget…
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GHOSTS: a riff on the emotional subterranean
echoes of emotion transgress my heart and mind i feel currents of suppressed attraction in confluence deep inside the erratic…
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A SURVIVOR’S MANIFESTO
its been more than three years since i jumped off key bridge almost ending a life that at the time…
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OF STABILIZERS AND STIMULENTS
thoroughly consumed by manic zen my imagination is flying free i pray that the lithium will do its work and…
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RITES OF FIRE: pyrotechnic meditation
we are slaves to technology—and to the class in control we transcribe a new pedagogy—reclaiming the creative human soul the…
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BLAST FEMME
platinum-clad ladies vogue at the discotheque leaving all the boys pining–hard-wired horned and wet we rock the dance floor pounding…
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PROPHETIC SCREAM
a child star—a cosmic gift left ensnared by celebrity’s kiss a prophetic scream a scream of hope and rage dancing…
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KING OF RAGE
ANGEL OR DEMON DEVIL OR SAINT YOU TAKE WHAT YOU WANT RAGE RULES YOUR BRAIN LIKE A MONSTER YOU KILL…
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A MONSTA RIFF
Monster boy ate my heart Ate my love tore it apart Left me dancing in the dark Bathed in tears…
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AGENTS OF KARMA
In the beginning was the word And the word was death Or maybe life or death to all life And…