Tag: creative writer
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spent
My piss is ochre. A version of marinara sauce is still wet to the corners of my mouth. My butt is crept to the wall, so my stumps lazily reach to the sky. The day was that of hours. The sum, unimportant. $10.95 exited my account to arrive. I spent $12.82 on a coconut curry…
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sitting with myself
Nothing has yet to capture the veins sprawling across my chest. I’ve tried to draw, photograph, or trace them with my fingers long enough to commit their pathways to memory. Yet, no luck. The cloudy blue and muddy greens bookending each channel always pale into my pinky flesh. The softness of the delta never translates.…
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thoughts i’ve had any day
i was going to read on this train, but i slept and scrolled. should i have texted my father for fathers day? should i have shaved my head the week i said i would? how can i pretend i know how to sculpt my hair for an evening. Is that google-able? what if i had…
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six versions of the same/maybe sentences won’t start with “I” soon
I spent five integral maturing years participating in hormone therapy. Medical professionals and I played with my body like putty until it grew stale and cracked at the edges. Rather, we extruded it between our digits until the material no longer had desire to bind together. Speaking to this in the past tense feels unfoundedly…
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2:11pm CST and a thousand other things
I think about the “but I’m not a rapper” YouTube video monthly. After fifteen minutes of Supa Hot Fire, I realize I haven’t had much to say today. I can’t put my tongue on an idea and lick it quite yet. Let alone be curious about it’s flavor or dissolving rate. It’s past noon. In…
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