It’s like you’re mad at me
For expecting something from you
I think
As I pace listening to the soundtrack
Of tram cars and trucks
Bike bells
From here...
Step 1: Prepare to spend each quarantine-morning locked in mortal combat with all the winged vermin in the city. Every time you open the window, some ...
The insulin resistance is
blocking my bloodstream
freeway.
My blood sugar spikes and I find myself
elated with a deity swimming in the
clouds.
When it...
do you understand my home? are your parents from this country? I am ten, there are too many rules, too many parts I can’t make sense of. how many aliens do you ...
Because I had to listen to the water boiling so it wouldn’t spill over, I forgot to use the handguard of my mandolin, lost to the rhythm of peeling chayote–epid...
After you held my head and fucked my mouth until you came and then knelt down and ate me out until I came, you got up to wash your face in the bathroom. You wal...
On days like this it seems to be too easy. I’m kicking at the pavement towards vintage haunts or caffeine shacks listening to Angles for the fifteenth time sinc...
She’s gazing at you
With eyes so vacant
It’s as though her brain
Has begun to unravel
Into a pink flabby
Rope dribbling all the way
Down her throat to the...
Intelligence
I can entertain a less than intelligent
And informed conversation
Hell
I can start one too
Like I remember one of my first editors for being ...
it’s 3 am and i’m standing half
naked in front of my fridge. it’s still 84 degrees
but i don’t really mind it anymore,
it makes this all just a little bit ...
writing this poem will not make you a good person
publishing this poem will not make you a good person
working hard will not make you a good person
paying ta...
which my ang mo friends here in Singapore seem to think is poison. They are paleo, gnawing on jerky and preferring their food to predate the invention of penici...
I’ve never felt comfortable walking through cemeteries.
Tombstones of our digital journeys served to me
as innocent suggestions.
A cartoon horse being lead t...
How hard the hearts close
on lip tips and soft drip
love like clenched teeth
as voluptuous lonely
samely knows television and
only kissing inanimance.
Fuc...
Breakfast
Dk what I’m gonna do about the breakfast game through all this
Bc I hate buying almond milk
Peanut Butter
Peanut Butter’s good
It’s really good...
The morning he broke up with me, he shit
his pants. We got a donut shaped as a poop-emoji
to commemorate the occasion, singing Miley
Cyrus’ The Climb o...
I stand in my bathrobe on the front porch with my coffee.
I take out my flask and return it to my pocket
as if I were a kid again and everything bad had to ...
In the gloaming, chilled pinecones are collected from the mauve gardens. The tallest trees reach for the first stars, the almost silver mirrored in dew. A ginge...
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there is a violence in this quiet give us witnesses to the dry sections goddamn, you hold that cig like a champ goddamn, you are not speaking in the car th...
My therapist says she can tell when I’ve not eaten
because I look pale,
pale honeycombs
and peaches with bruises,
delicate purple patches
thin skin stretch...
In Spanish, the word mama translates to “nurse”
or to “fuck with” if you place emphasis on the first syllable—
a single word to mean and be the mean of th...