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September 11, 2023

After Swimming

Nothing was the same,but I didn’t know it yet.I had been swimming,and my hair was wet,ears ringing with drips,drips,drips, the screams of an eyewitness on the radio that my teacher was too shocked to switch off. My hair was wet,and my mind occupied with how I’d failed to swim a full length.I was scared.I didn’t understand…

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November 21, 2022

Don’t Pray Anymore

You think and you pray.God gestures to the answers,but you close your eyes. Death draws a new breath,bullets pierce peaceful places.You just pray again. Don’t pray anymore.

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October 16, 2017

Kneeling In The Garden

Deep under dirt, I grow, audacious, ferocious, fed by rain, you sought to deny me, formally segregated sprinkles. I will grow, and glow, under my moonlight, and bloom, in the morning, to kneel, with all the other flowers, you denied the right to exist, in your garden. Order “Stormy Weather” here Order “Last Of The…

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