You say you were taught to
“Respect all races”I must impolitelyDisagree. I think you meanYou were taught to“Expect all races”To be wholly subjugatedTo thee.
Category: Metered
Who would know?
Who would know?Who knows anything at all?As I live and breatheAnd wrench out life likeI pluck the hairs from myContinue Reading
The Cry
Written February 4, 2001 at age 15 I pulled the gun up to my head and made my mommy cry.Continue Reading
The Aztec God
Five years, five years grey walls surroundI stand alone, no solid groundUpon which my despair has foundA hope of solaceContinue Reading
I’m missing so much of my life
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye. Either aloof or prone to strifeGoodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye. When will I learn to soldier on?To try, To try, To try. And learn toContinue Reading
I know of a place
in Montana, where things live and grow six feet underground How profound: When some neighbors wouldn’t stay, because they couldn’t keep watering acres of Kentucky grass withContinue Reading
I keep pills
In metal boxesNestled safelyIn my drawerAfter talkingTo a doctorWho told meWhat theyAre for:Some are Meant to Get meSleepingSome areMeant toMake me WakeBut itDoesn’tContinue Reading
I don’t want echoes
in my home.Empty spaces, left unknown. I want closeness; heart to hearts.I want stories by a roaring hearth. I want to know you andContinue Reading
I am free, until I’m not
I have rights, or so I thought.I have a voice, until I don’t.You will listen, until you won’t. I canContinue Reading
Only Silence Answers Back
What do we do when we can’t saythe words we’re meant to say?What do I do when you won’t stayandContinue Reading
Alexis Attempts to Write 