cannot advance fairly when we give speeches at a race that drowns the nations choices always was, always will be white fellas voices.
Always Was
Since last I…
It has been a year and 23 days since I posted. The last post was about missing my Da. He has been dead for a year and about 50 days. I have […]
Think of You
I’m a Tanita Tikarim song Her dulcet sadness Haunting me And in my head I sing along “I think of you”: And as I breath – I think of you, And if […]
Autoreply
The final 70 metres, The track straight Duty free imagery Teasing me I look at her: Three days Three dozen hours Finish line: Auto reply – Leaving
Words to a Marriage
Help me say the words That she irons out the worry That was there since forever And that he never Needs to care Cos she is there.
Wish I was a stoner.
I wish I was a stoner, because I just realised that I don’t know of a word to describe the experience of knowing a word, yet being unable to define what it […]
Ah Margaret…#facepalmemoji
Trust a bigot to get me writing again. Hi, how have you been? So Margaret Court, hey? What the fuck???? I have to say, this is not going to be a rant […]
What time does
It passes, It promises, It gives rise to – And rules it all out. It bastardises the truth, And resets all the rules, It plays havoc with hearts, Messes with our minds, […]
Here
Whatever led me here Gave me Tofu Gyoza Miso and Sylvia Plath Grateful fodder.
At the seams
We talk in memes/ Speak in tweets No tongue All talk And busting At the seams
Men with beards and the women who love them
The menu read all smashed, all Super Salad with Acai. The coffee was a sour roast, the type of inhouse shit I hate. The men were bearded, staff and customers. They postured […]
Grie(ving/f)
‘Thawed’ when you were never frozen is not the word, But it encapulates a simple moment, so I have heard: That moment when you melt, but form a solid- In the place […]
Embrace
I saw the film embrace today. There were four of us in the cinema, staggered through the rows. Four women, aged 20s to 50s I would guess. All different shapes and sizes. […]
Being here
I would not have reckoned that one of these days talking about the weather would have deep, gritty, horrifying traction. Traction as in gears, as in implications. Real implications, for me. I […]
the artist
breathes air between the tip of a finger and a canvas.
My call to arms
Crush their spirit so they cannot argue. That would be the words filling the edges of my Meme. The meme itself would be a fat white guy, lets call him Trump, on […]
is okay
Sadness is okay Grief You know, loss You lose if you have And to have Well That is the bomb.
Steven Stevenson
Steven Stevenson followed the sun His tanned legs were strong His stature was short He sat in a hammock drinking a beer He ate Lobster alone on a deck He didn’t work […]
Last Encounters
I was looking at her. I said I think I may be having a heart attack. She told me it was anxiety. She said she had Googled it. I believed her, there […]
Love just yet
A time when so much lay ahead And you lay in my bed When we were young And not yet old Battle Scars Life None of it set in just yet Just […]
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