I remember thinking at a young age that marriage would not be for me. It felt like a trap. A way to lose any and all of the freedom I always knew I wanted for myself. Marriage felt like a dark cloud looming over me, just waiting for the…
And for the first time, I didn’t notice 35th street.
I looked up, and you were already long gone.
Forgetting someone is a funny thing.
One moment, you can’t drink your coffee or take the train or walk down the street without thinking of them.
And then out of nowhere…
7. Good Enough
I will never forget the day I looked into the mirror and decided that the only acceptable part of my face was my eyes. I was only in middle school and yet already so aware of who the world expected me to be. I remember pausing in…
Every time I think of Florida I think of you.
I never used to notice Edgar Allan Poe,
But now, I see him everywhere.
I pretend that I can see your old university from the train window.
The green line goes by, and I search every car.
Every face.
Hoping…
We drive into his gated community in Chesterfield, Missouri, and he tells me that this is where some of the St. Louis Cardinals players live. I look around at all of the mansions, in awe of the fact that people really live this way. Just a few minutes into this…
Time is passing,
But I do not recognize it.
We share suburban bus stop smiles
And polite, grocery store waves.
I ask how you are, but I’m not listening.
Everyone is good, even though they’re dying.
No one has to smile anymore; it’s not like anyone would even know.
If…
Is it even Tuesday anymore? Do we still keep the same calendars that we did before the world as we knew it ended in 2020? Can we really call it an ending if no one can even pinpoint when it actually began? What if we have been living with this…
There’s a tall white man standing on the side of the road. Every few moments, he takes a couple of steps and then pauses. He holds his arms up as if he’s holding a rifle, looks into each car that dares to enter his domain, aims, and fires.
We make…
