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Oxytocin

I never thought it was possible for one person to occupy so much of my mind. You’re a high off the upmarket bougee drug probably exclusive to the people who live on the hills. The ones who started the opioid epidemic. The ones who know you just by looking at your shoes. You are theContinueContinue reading “Oxytocin”

Wounds left by the devil’s claws

I am squeezed between a rusted taxi window with scratch marks and loose rubber that belonged somewhere – Kinda like how I belonged to you- and a chubby coloured young woman. She has broad shoulders and sharp elbows. Passing over the Mandela bridge, I sit cramped up. The window does not open and my bunContinueContinue reading “Wounds left by the devil’s claws”

In love with the sun

Last night a volcano erupted and everything that ever existed became irrelevant. The lava convulsed to form a new land, a firtility. My biggest fear was intimacy come too close and find my vacillation only to leave. You put your fears aside and presented me with mine I only feared what I didn’t understand -anContinueContinue reading “In love with the sun”

fascISt euphemISm

fascist euphemism Today I write a discouraging eulogy.Nothing never heard or never written before.Heart on my sleeveAnger practiced like a chore As history repeats itself and we chose our positionsBirthing a new body Resuscitates an ancestor on this earth nothing changes but the temperature. Again i must praise youSeek praise from youOnly valid among youWillContinueContinue reading “fascISt euphemISm”

The Pigeons are the free

We admire birds We think that they roam freely We think that they are above We think it is incredible how they dive into the air, Soar back up -so high that you can no longer see them. Isnt it incredible how a bird can touch the sun and not burn? Birds are uniform. TheyContinueContinue reading “The Pigeons are the free”