derrick brown will be here on thursday and it'll be nice to hear him talk again. every microphone in this city seems to miss him and the books he writes ( Read more... )

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one day you'll be sitting across from a 24 yr old protege in a military jacket at some outdoor cuban cafe with little white candles keeping the night light. and he'll say under his breath ( Read more... )

almost four years ago...


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i remember how his face looked there in the dark that Long Beach gives birth to every night. every deep deep feature that spent a life time on his face never looked so beautiful as it would to a nineteen year old girl who was doing every single thing she could to escape. his mouth was my map and his chest was where i wanted to go ( Read more... )

the crippled are here, taking notes on how i bleed so efficiently.with their little crooked paws and there immobile legs, chicken scratching the formulas out ( Read more... )

this is what it sounds like when my heart's plucked out plucked out.

and here is my heart, what it looked like when it left the state on an areoplane.

...give me faith that people are still capable of being human.

meanwhile. my neighbor rides the whip every morning in my parking lot.
bear and i gave up trying to sleep on the couch. now we just sleep on top of the covers.
i work until seven tonight and then i'm taking my homework to 101 to complete it over some mac and cheese,toast, and iced tea.

i had a doctor's appointment at eight this morning. right when they were reading back my charts...my phone started vibrating and it was him...calling ( Read more... )

they keep calling to tell me that there's more wrong with me than i would have ever thought ( Read more... )