Manipulate You

Masks

“She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.”
-Shel Silverstein

Revenge

It took three years and seven nights
To find words to destroy him—
Finally, revenge would be mine.

I opened my mouth at just the right time
Pulled out my tongue
With the script in my mind.

And just as the words
were lined up to get dropped
My tongue caught stage-fright
and instead my heart spoke

Before

A Wish

Like A Prayer

Hero

Fires For The Cold

“For poems are not words,
after all,
but fires for the cold,
ropes let down to the lost,
something as necessary
as bread
in the pockets of the hungry.”
— Mary Oliver

A Simple Life

She hopes the money dies—

Cookie-Cutter Baby

She’s a cookie-cutter baby
living in the Paradise of cities