Post Traumatic Sexualization Syndrome - a type of anxiety; typically brought on by the sexualization of the female body in its formative years and/or in such a consistent sequence that the anxiety presents in or even as her realized sexuality and sexual experience Post Traumatic Sexualization Disorder - disorder in which one's anxiety surrounding sexuality is [...]
Category: poetry
Awkward Hugs For Everyone!
Hello and welcome to my new followers (And thanks for hanging out to all of y'all who have been at the party since the punch was still room temperature). --d
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Advice for People Writing Advice for Writers
Advice for People Writing Advice for Writers 7 Ways to Make Writing Advice Suck Less I will literally click on any link that says “Writing Advice.” The link may come from the New Yorker or someone’s Angelfire website from 1999. Doesn’t matter. I will read that crap out of it. Before we get to what [...]
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rethink: The American Dream
Dude I had considered a friend asked another from our circle why I couldn't find a permanent teaching position. I just ignored her stoking of the gossip flame. He had no degrees, but was a fairly--that is regionally--accomplished artist. He was enjoying one of those "visiting professor" positions--it was his first. Perhaps his condescension was [...]
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One Solitary Life
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin A [...]
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Trigger
It seems so obvious now. I don't want it all to be about race. I don't. But I teach mostly Black young people who have told me things like: 1. My family calls me "white boy," you know, because I'm the one who goes to college. 2. Slavery ended in, like, 1930 right? C'mon Ms. [...]
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Medusa
"Medusa was a Blackwoman, afrikan, dread cut she eye at a sista mirror turn she same self t’stone. She looks really kill? Ask she nuh! Medusa would know. She terrible eyes leave me stone coal." "Medusa? Medusa black!" - Dorothea Smartt Connecting Medium (2001)
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Say word. (an invitation)
kun - an Arabic word referring to the act of manifesting, existing, and being In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...Through him all things were made. John 1-3 KJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and [...]
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Monthly Meter: December
fellowship/publication submissions: 5 fellowship/publication acceptances: 0 fellowship/publication rejections: 3 books: 12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northrup Secret Shame: My dusty passport. Mantra of the Moment: No risk, no reward.
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2013 in review
Stay on the grind; stay on the low... Be well good people, Under the Radar A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. Under the Radar was viewed about 8,100 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 7 trips to carry that many people. In 2013, there [...]
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