Jun 24
Progress 1. It started when they sat us little girls at the kids table so after we ate we could color with crayons and stay out of momma’s hair while she started sighing dramatically And clanging those dishes which only barely muffled the sounds of men drinking and talking shit of little boys chasing and …
Jun 17
The Pattern Have you noticed the pattern? They take turns saying whose bombing and whose ceasing but there’s no sight of peace? Haven’t you noticed there is no ceasefire? Ever? I wanna strike now, run out of my house now, screaming noooooooo at the top of my lungs but I don’t wanna look crazy and …
Jan 17
first published in the Scumrag by Scumbag Press in the UK This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Rhea Melina’s Found Confetti (Carbonation Press, 2024) “I beg of you to not get me wrong, But you will” I met Rhea Melina on Telegraph in Oakland, at a craft beer and bottle shop where we …
May 12
The days are packed not like sardines. Like pennies rolled tight. Ends folded precise, insides adding up to what? I wish for you a more simple life. For the necessity of washing fruit to be all you need to radicalize you. I’ve straddled the threshold my whole life and I suppose I’m lucky to never …
May 01
You out here Yeah, you out here making fun of millionaires in space but have you canceled your Prime membership? If not, it’s you paying for it, all of it with your money and your time and your energy and your eyes and you will go nearly blind but won’t be able to pay for …
