our father who art in a penthousesits in his 37th floor suiteand swivels to gaze downat the city he made me inhe allows me to stand andsollicit graffiti untilhe needs the land I stand onI in my darkened thresholdam pawing through my pocketsthe receipts, the bus schedulesthe matchbook phone numbersthe urgent napkin poemsall of which […]
she’s looking in the mirrorshe’s fixing her hairand I touch my head to feelwhat isn’t thereshe’s humming a melodywe learned in grade schoolshe’s so happyand I thinkthis is not cool’cause I know the guyshe’s been talking aboutI have met him beforeand I thinkwhat is this beautiful beautiful womansettling for? she bends her breathwhen she talks […]
our father who art in a penthousesits in his 37th floor suiteand swivels to gaze downat the city he made me inhe allows me to stand andsollicit graffiti untilhe needs the land I stand onI in my darkened thresholdam pawing through my pocketsthe receipts, the bus schedulesthe matchbook phone numbersthe urgent napkin poemsall of which […]
the wind is ruthlessthe trees shake angry fingers at the skythe people hunch their shouldershold their collars over their earsand run byit’s a cold rainit’s a hard rainlike the kind that you find in songsi guess that makes methe jerk with the heartachehere to sing youabout how i’ve been done wrong and i am sitting, […]
I’m gonna turnand walk awayyou can waittil I am far alongthen run and comeand catch my armand say you’d dieif I were goneI want to hear youcall my nameit’s too easyjust to say it softI don’t like my languagewatered downI don’t like my edgesrounded off I can’t always waitfor your circumstance to improvelove is loose […]
he caresses every bottlelike it’s the first one he’s hadsayingit ain’t lovebut it ain’t badit’s the only rewardbestowed upon meand I have served faithfully I can see he is scarredfrom doing some hard timebut I let alone what is broken’cause it isn’t minehe strikes out at mewhen I am within reachthen he reaches for mewhen […]
She says my ass hurtswhen I sit downshe says my feet hurtfrom just standing aroundI think my bodyis as restless as my mindand I don’t know if I can roll with itthis time packed his uniformsand drove him to the baseshe was crying all the waythe world looked her in the faceand saidroll with it, […]
fourteenth street and the garbage swirls like a cyclonethree o’clock in the afternoon and I am going homeF train is full of high school studentsso much shoutingso much laughterlast night’s underwear in my back pocketsure sign of the morning after take me hometake me home and leave me therethink I’m going to cry, I don’t […]
he said ani, you’ve gotten tough’cause my tone was curtyeah, and when I’m approached in a dark alleyI don’t lift my skirtin this cityself-preservationis a full time occupationI’m determinedto survive on this shoreyou know I don’tavert my eyes anymorein a man’s worldI am a woman by birthand after nineteen times around I have foundthey will […]
I saw on the postermy name was printedjust a little bit smallerI can tell you need to standjust a little bit tallerno one ever talks about itbut no one can disguisethe cloud of competitionthat’s hanging behind their eyesthere’s more bad bloodin this bar than there is beerand it’s subtle but it still sucksand I want […]