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How I wrote “Depression Is Not Real?” from Home Wrecker
Today is World Mental Health Day, and so I decided to give you a little insight into how I created one of the most personal poems in my latest book, “Depression Is Not Real?” from Home Wrecker. Firstly, I had to acknowledge that depression is in fact real. It isn’t that I had doubted that,…
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The Kidnapped Prince Of Iceland
Awoken from Iceland, I sigh. Fly high, for breakfast, before staring, aimlessly, at shameless tourists. Beat up the windows, Ask me to dance. I will not dance. I’m so far away, and they push pills in me, and starve me out, to bring me closer. I lay still, where nobody can see, surrounded by tortured…
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Love Lessons
His brow furrowed, as his eyes, that had seen and collected, the wonders of the world, fell to the floor. He asked me, why I wanted him. I took the hands, that had spent more nights, alive and exploring, than I had had days on the earth. I told him, that I…
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Women Who Work (Really Hard At Pretending To Be Allies)
She tapped on a screen, as if it meant the same, as standing with the brave, and using her freedom, to free them. I am proud I will say I am proud to support my LGBTQ friends and the LGBTQ Americans of the LGBTQ Americans my Dad targets who have made immense contributions to our…
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I’ll Die
28.07.17