I am sooooo happy I waited to write this post. Last night I went into Barnes and Noble with a friend who is in town and we were walking around, looking at books. I have gotten into a habit of going to the fiction section and imagining where my books will live on the shelf [...]

i signed up for gym class when
i was a junior in high school. i was
from out of town
and out of place
and out of shape. i figured that intermediate dance would be
an easy A.

the first day of gym class
i couldn’t help but look at you and laugh
you wore spandex shorts that were tight in [...]

the triumvirate

three years ago a balmy night in august
the three of us were cooped up in a tent
we hadn’t taken a chemistry test to fail yet
and we didn’t know what slow grinds were
but i remember laying next to angelica
and falling asleep on michael thinking
what the hell had i gotten myself into

and three years later we [...]

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. ~ Marcus Garvey

What follows is an extended metaphor based on the poem “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes.

back from dc. crazy weekend. poet trees time.

say say say

i don’t know where to begin
i don’t know what to say
say
say
to you except that you
make
everything seem so simple
and easy
even a woman as incomprehensible
as me

and i don’t know what to say
when it comes to my exboyfriends
and i don’t know what to say
when it [...]

dc today.

i dreamed a dream

i dreamed a dream of a life worth living
and to see it go up in smoke
puff puff pass
with just one
wrong move
tears my soul in two

is there any way i can
text l. hughes and ask him
what happens to a dream
deferred

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