The Top 5 Reasons To Vote In Illinois |
The Top 5 Reasons To Vote In IllinoisOr: Why It Still Means A Thing Even If It Ain't Got That Swing1. Big margin = big mandate. The popular vote doesn't put anyone in the White House, but it affects w...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:21:00 GMT |
Black Superheroes and Africans in Mexico |
If you read my blog, and you live in Chicago then you prolly want to check these two events out. I'ma head to both of em' sometime next week, if you want to roll with me. Black Age XI !!!A friend, Tu...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:12:00 GMT |
"Global Diversity" |
This class makes me so angry. It makes me not want to even speak sometimes but this is what happens when I do...She says,"yeah, shit's unfair for some people. But so what? Life's unfair"I say,"Word, l...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:58:00 GMT |
10.11.08 |
There is always a moment in life when everything gets turned upside down.When you are a stone turned over and you find what has been living underneath, untouched and unnoticed for so long...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:53:00 GMT |
how did I get here? |
I belong somewhere between. torn jeans and metal forks curled around beautiful stones, heavy on my fingers. blue skirts and scars on my face. I am a tender skinned vicious thing, a big mouth shy ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:03:00 GMT |
what i’ma leave in Louisiana |
My eyes were wet slices of cantaloupe when I woke up. I can't wait for work to be over but maybe it seems there isn't enough time left in this hot, early morning, nasty (in the best way) place. T...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:56:00 GMT |
Letter to Dad |
(a freewrite I wrote to share with the kids)
It's Father's Day and i've been thinking about you. About the time you called on new Years crying because you were so alone and i couldn't wait to get off ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:34:00 GMT |
customer service |
There is a sadness deep in some small hidden cave in my chest. I'm trying to look in it but it just gets darker and darker the deeper i go. And i just don't have time to be looking so deep into myself...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 11:21:00 GMT |
time has time for everything |
angela at the coffeeshop sent me a poem that mentioned ponchatoula, louisiana. I chopped and re-arranged it and put it here. it's kind of nervous and sweet.Down the InterstateHis left hand is under my...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:54:00 GMT |
an orgy of sex and brutality, oh my! |
we’ve always been beautiful but we’ve never been free
bad ass hell kittens... ummm. you gotta love the queens.
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:37:00 GMT |
