tasks in my belly like spiders. once i ___  i'll be ___, once i ___ , i'll feel ___

 Why hello, Chicago! So there ARE people besides white twentysomethings

oh, tell me more ( Read more... )

i am getting thin, i can tell.

rode the bus twenty minutes out of my way again, accidently ( Read more... )

so it happens ( i know this ) it just hasn't,
yet and i know i shouldn't ask
when
or how
but it seems like the only answer i get
if i don't ask
is no
no
no
no
so i figure if i ask ( beg, even )
i might hear
YES
YES YE
S.

so i'm here: that is enough for now ( Read more... )

still: it boils. it pours over the top. it sizzles on my stove and onto the porcelain tiles ( Read more... )

there's nothing that makes you feel more all right ( Read more... )

anxious hours when we have the privilege of ( Read more... )