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H I S T O R Y
living through major historical events, that’ll soon fill textbooks in classroom desks. future generations will learn about the pandemic, with pictures of caution taped jungle-gyms and lone playground equipment. read all about the protests that resulted in wreck and distress, watching how the media coverage recorded how we split. feel the tension rise along with…
45, 81, assassination, Biden, bullets, Corona Virus, COVID-19, dropping knowledge, dropping science, history, identity, insecure, knowledge, Love, media, pandemic, Peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, politics, power, President, reagan, shooter, sniper, story, textbook, trump, Trust, Trust issues, United States, us history, us politics -
Choppy Water
The tide is high, the current is rough and I’m holding on with everything I got. The streets are flooded with a sea of face-covered humans and a mist of picket-signs and clenched fists floats over it. This journey through life has gotten a lot more difficult and everyone is out rioting against a cult…
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Trusting Trust
Quietly bumbled and buzzed into sight, a finely tuned specimen possessing endless light. Swiped in the direction of the mind’s eye and happy it coincided on the other side. Restaurants, bars, tango classes and biology practice. She’s a Kataract, cascading with style, Technical and exact, making every experience worthwhile. Her jive is to be the…
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You Remind Me…
The similarities in our distinct histories are scary. The script conducting our lives seems plagiarized and this doesn’t feel like our first time. Though we reside in different continents our life experiences are of the same content. Mixed genetics label us ethnically ambiguous, we’re a pair of cultured artists with hearts of revolutionary activists. Identical…
Acceptance, dropping knowledge, drunk, Heartboken, Heartbreak, hijab, Hurt, indonesia, insecure, Jakarta, Letting go, Lost, Love, lust, Open Mic, orgasm, Peace, Poem, Poetry, pondok indah, respect, Trust, Trust issues, Vulnerable -
Do it (circa 2009)
Opening up and being vulnerable is something new for me. I’ve written poetry and other works in secret for longer than I can remember, being afraid to show anyone my joints because I didn’t want people to judge me or whatever. Thanks to family, friends and therapy I’ve built up the courage to finally share…
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