I wouldn’t exactly call it trigger-happy. (See, I know just how often I misfire.) Some days I forget what I sound like entirely. When I start to speak, my voice shakes like an old washing machine. Last winter I swore there were cobwebs growing on my vocal chords. When I introduced myself to you, myContinue reading “If my voice were a gun”
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today, i’m trying
not to think about how i want to kiss you with my mouth open, and my eyes just the same. i want to not want to see you- (really see you) shiver straight out of our current context, carefully crafting a new one. wanna stop dreamin’ of a new one. Continue reading “today, i’m trying”
a piece i did for today’s speak-out on my campus against sexual violence:
There is a contagion on my campus.There is a sickness in society.I am not a doctor but I am deeply concerned‘cause it doesn’t take an MD to realize that we are unwell. Our women are coughing, our men are ill too- this is gender neutral‘cause we’re all infected.It’s not just my malady, or yours.This is everyone’s illness.soContinue reading “a piece i did for today’s speak-out on my campus against sexual violence:”
This is called how to chase happiness the way sadness chases you
because happiness is not something you can cross your fingers and hope for- it is something you must chase after even when your shoes are falling apart. so all puns intended this, this is a running list, as I am working on it we all are, so 1. Dissect your devastation Catalogs your concerns, surveyContinue reading “This is called how to chase happiness the way sadness chases you”
“Becoming an agent of historical change”
today my professor said there are scientific studies saying, “we are actually soft-wired to be hyper-competitive, we are more hardwired to be empathetic” as in there is this illusion that we are born brutal, born tough, born sinners, born evil this is just a falsity. this is just some cover up. this is just aContinue reading ““Becoming an agent of historical change””
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