Meditations on a New York postcard when migrating thoughts reach across borders to the land of apple pie, stereotype bullies its way to the fore, freeing its bright lights to terrorize; loosing its skyscrapers to stalk the premises of international imaginations. My voice is silenced beneath the rumble of the subway’s roar, forcing foreign ears […]
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Of Wings, Nectar, & Ancestors
1 On deep purple-black nights, when the whole house has pushed itself into slumber, WaLiLa flits around her room like a moth. She bounces off the walls & clings to the ceiling. Her energy jumps up & turns cartwheels. It does jumping jacks & jiggles its knees impatiently. Her ears try to give the impression […]
Seduction or Rape?!?
So I told this guy once that he seduced me, and he said, “yeah, right, like you didn’t want to get down with me.” I said, “I never said I wasn’t down, I just said you took the initiative to make it happen “i.e. you’ve seduced me.” Discussing the same issue with another male friend, […]