i slept a lot today until the mentor/mentee dinner. i love my kids and all my fellow mentors. yayayayayayay. now i have the itis. the space between my leg is nervously pumping under the table and an uneasy shy smile spreads like butter across my cocoa colored face he speaks like philly while he speaks [...]

so i decided to start a 30/30 again. i need to be fresh. and the pressure of day to day living has gotten me down. time to get back to what i know. and i know how to write. i don’t know if i write well, but it keeps me honest and. that’s all i [...]

pills susie wakes up every morning shaking spiral curls from in front of her eyelashes stretches and slides out of her sheets ready to take a shower to start her day but she can’t go anywhere until she lysols each linoleum tile in the bathroom stall she spends hours slumped over with scrubbing bubbles sixty [...]

last poem of the month. it’s been crazy, crazy crazy. thank you for reading. ive enjoyed the criticism and encouragement. start your own. keep writing. and reading. everyone’s a poet. ecclesiastes 9:11 i woke up this morning  for the first time in four months without my mother down the hall to the sound of an [...]

all packed. will be back for the last time in t-minus 12 hours. this is exciting and terrifying, all at the same time. it’s the end of the world as we know it [and i feel fine] three years ago i begged my mother for an rainbow colored bedspread  that was over her budget as [...]

good luck to the cincinnati bengals. ugh. pray hard, yall. preseason at bengals training camp  deep in the bluegrass of kentucky my dad is the first person up every morning he rubs the sleep out of his eyes places his accent back under his tongue like chewing tobacco snuff shakes the limp residue of a [...]

allergies are bad today. im tired. 21 to 12 and back in the card aisle at walmart trying to find the perfect card for tasha nate’s sweet little sister who is turning 12 on friday when i came to visit in chicago and we shared a room and shared stories i forgot for those hours [...]