To the curly haired, now-slumped over, gloomily-looking-into-the-distance, 24 year old sitting on the train, who gave a dollar and an apple away: thank you. And it is not your fault. It is no one person’s fault. If it is, it is that of a few hundred white men, a few hundred years ago (rounding?)Continue reading “Watch the Gap”
Category Archives: inequality
after the game
when all I want to do is scream about the patriarchy but I know I’d just perpetuate a stereotype what am I supposed to do when I score a goal on you and you act like I’m a tree whose branch luckily swayed in the right direction what am I supposed to do when IContinue reading “after the game”
Politics
I hear a knock from the cellar and call on Ego to answer the door: “Money for the poor?” a young man ponders, “What am I doing here?” and the door is shut, hands still warm. I can handle up to six hundred dollars at a time, enough for rent, some shoes, wine ifContinue reading “Politics”
I Hope
I hope, after the shit this world has put them through– I hope that they become angels, white clipped wings spread over the night sky– I hope that God exists, I hope they’ll guard us, skin soaked in stars their stories will be cloaked from above. May 21, 2015
Reaching Joy 