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On Their Own 4 A While Anyway
At some point, we have to believe we will be together again.
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they turned the water off
that time they turned
the water off/
by the third day
we made it
2 the car wash
stripped down naked
envenomed members
of the community
whose moral malignancy/
was bitter as the sting
from the soapy hose
it was resentment that
in tenderness
objected to a bunch
of naked…
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hope is not real but behavior is
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i get screamed at whenever i articulate in any way
that hope is a neurological response that moves
us forward even if it is rarely based in the mechanisms
of reality
get real, i tell them which is when they often opt for
internet attacks that are, themselves, not based…
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the waffle house poems
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i knew he’d be in there
he was
he was wanted by the cops
for shoplifting
at fifteen, he had avoided
all the traps
the hoodie obfuscated his face
from the cameras
his tongue was not much given
to a torrent of words
maybe you might get
one word grunts…
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Withdrawal
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we both
knew
withdrawal
would be
a real
bitch
the shivering
blankets
and
blankets
soaking up
the sweat
the hallucinations
are coming
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Going Broke
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We met Cherry Ester in a school shelter during the flood that arrived directly after Hurricane Michael knocked into us like a punching bag. Appalachia gets punched again and again. Hurricane Florence had just engulfed us like a shipwreck a week ago. We had yet to recover and the hurricanes…
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What Really Happened
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1. I had just come off of two years on the Navajo Nation. I was deeply affected by the issue of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It had been in my face those entire two years.
2. One night, I went to bed.
3. I woke up several months later, and was…
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Philanthropy Is Just Another Tired Old Lie
The first grant I ever worked with was from the Ford Foundation.
And then…
What do I need. Today.
The past for me is so abstract that turning around to look at it takes away my energy that I need to face what will be coming at me tomorrow.
I…
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NYT: We Are Animals
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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?comments#permid=29190900
Thing is, Americans, too, are animals. Not in a hateful sense. Americans are Hominidae.
Family. Optimism. Dreams. Faith. These are not things I know anything about.
Mayhem. Murder. Cruelty. Hatred. Assault. Rape. Addiction. Young boys doing sex work. Sorrow. Death. Grim. Repellent. Cops. Killing. War. War. War.
This is…