getting there
mother
we speak to each other in the language you resented.
far from home, this is the English that swallowed you whole
only to cough you out like much of the people that made you feel
We looked up at the night sky,
searching and waiting for maybe something to happen.
And just like that something did.
I’ve never seen a shooting star before, and for a while, I had started to believe they were just concepts made by…
B was the letter I loathed the most. The second place to A and I can’t tell you how much I hated losing…
And it’s weird how life works because I started with an A but I was much happier when I was with B.
I am 16 years old and I do not remember a time when my grandfather was not lying on his bed mattress surrounded by orange containers of pills and pills of antidepressants. I don’t remember that photo we took as he held me in his arms with an unfamiliar smile on his face. I don’t remember him taking me to Chuck E…