“what happens once you run out of material for your life? stories end”

“We took care,

care meaning happy,

despite the grit of it all.”

“farmers pluck gilded veins from their bodies / pouring life into tilled ground / despite / never knowing if they’ll become saviors or sinners”

A short documentary that examines U.S. intervention in Central America as it relates to El Salvador and the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992).

“man like softness, like example, like embroidery; flip him inside out and you’ll see all the ugliness it took to get him here”

“Flowing in the nets to brush ankles

Sheltered ribbons from the sun.”

BREAKING NEWS: Winthorpe Power Couple ‘Raliyah’ split amid Chaotic Cheating Scandal

three / remember / all humans / are cyborgs / all cyborgs / are sharp shards of sky

Bo crouches on the floor with her cowboy boots. She reaches into one and pulls out a wad of twenty dollar bills, a rolex, and an assortment of glittering jewelry, all perfect diamonds and pearls. From the other boot comes a small revolver. She stares at the array with reverence.

She looked so peaceful,

she could meet God

“Sohee, who lives in Seoul, endured the little boy's runny nose and scream.”

Blame the late bloom, a mimicry of want

that is a vacuum: a place waiting to be filled 

I caught a spider for you,

Held it up by one desperate leg

The sticky dark table and 

My damp-rain hair saw us

A mostly-true night of degeneracy, recalled by Benjamin Grose

“we both know this country knows the million and plus ways on how to tear your life apart.”

the Apocalypse came and went yesterday

         we wait in patience for the milkman to come