Monthly Archives: May 2025

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I remember you.

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An invocation. A declaration. A curse;
I remember you.

I summon you. I bind you. I name you my past.
Stand. Feet planted at the center of the nearest fault line, ley line, or graph line and make peace with these charges;
I remember you.

I remember you as you were;
Counterfeit, tired, and cruel.

I remember you as you promised;
A garden. A refuge. A forest.

I remember myself as you never were;
Liminal, transcendent, home.

I call my desperation and anger. I bind them. I name them reckoning.
Stand at the doors of their temples and burn.

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in another life you were better

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Rod Serling haunts me;

The way my father intended.






You leave copies of bell hooks out when we fight;





While your boyfriend calls me a pussy. 





In another life you were better;





In another life we were better.










I owe the people $128.





You owe some broken girl-child from the mountains everything.










You of all people were supposed to understand me.





You gave me every book about myself that you have never read 










I watch the tendrils of apathy and capital coil;





You could not hold the pain of a widow if she payed you