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First Times

Please remember the joy of your first times. As we age there’s less opportunities to live through new first times and I ask “is the excitement gone because of it?” I was on a date with a fresh 29-old woman, who raved and took hard drugs for the very

Don’t Interrupt, She Told Herself

She feared to break the tender nature he covered under his skin, in his art, his poetry and actions of pure loving emotions. She could not take on the responsibility to rid the world of what she felt was magic, what made her interested in life. Her injection creating rejection,

Osaka Lovenight

Osaka, May 2023 I'm just boxes filled with humans concreted by their hand. I know I'm not pretty to look at from a distance, I ask you to come closer. Get to know my nooks and crannies, talk to me just before the closing hour which

Inked

Not once. Twice, thrice she turns to see in slab slap in the middle of his chin spelled urchin. She knows she’s weak to the ink embroidered in the skin of men who care not for her but for whom they wear down in time before they find the

I Die Breathing

Broken breath as the excuse bleak and burrowed by the bad air. Allergens, fires, cars, smoke pollution of lungs finds its way into the brain. Scattered in from far away washed in on the worst day could have rained, but instead a fire came. It ain’t a volcano melting

Ideal

It’s not ideal to have your eyes become a leaking shower. It’s not ideal to have your face refurbished into the ugly crier. It’s not ideal to share your life in pretense with the one who went on the offense. It’s the slivers of when it’

Wishful Wishing

I wish for what I cannot have for what one day we can share the coins the rage the empathy that only comes with age. I wish I had that now I wish at least I had you to join me in my wishing if only you existed. I wish