Slip of the Tongue

Slip of the Tongue

I’ll tell you bout my ‘ethnic makeup.’
I wear foundation,
not that powdery shit,
I wear the foundation laid by my indigenous people.
It’s that foundation that makes it so that past being globalized,
I can still vocalize with confidence that i know where my roots are.
I wear this foundation not upon my face, but within my soul,
and I take this from my ancestors
because I’ll be damned if I’d ever let an American or European corporation
tell me what my foundation
should look like

The Book Thief

The Book Thief

THERE WAS once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. The young man wandered...
Dark

Dark

Darkness is the lie, A lie only a suburb of the soul can see; Whispering, shuddering darkness, Silent and smooth as night. Engulfing darkness, smothering sharp senses, Claiming fresh cerebral sonnets. Sleep, insanity touches you darkly, “Madness? Nae, tis but a...
New York Trilogy: Ghosts

New York Trilogy: Ghosts

Black takes advantage of the weather to wander farther afield than previously, and Blue follows. Blue is relieved to be moving again, and as Black continues on his way, Blue hopes the journey will not end before he’s had a chance to work out the kinks. As one would...
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass

The Garden and the Tower: Early Visions of the New World was divided into two parts of approximately equal length, “The Myth of Paradise” and “The Myth of Babel.” The first concentrated on the discoveries of the explorers, beginning with...
Zeitoun

Zeitoun

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 The news came down to the prisoners that after lunch they would be allowed to go outside. It had been a week since Zeitoun had seen the sun. During the hour they were allowed in the yard, Zeitoun tried to jog, but felt light-headed. He walked...