“Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.” ~ Pink Those strong-arm voices inside your head that say, “no you can’t” are liars. They want you to quit. Shut them down. Yes, right now. They are not your friends. The voice imploring you to just keep your mouth closed, the one saying don’t argue, don’t resist, or persist, or protest. The one […]
Clean and Sober
“Your path is your character defining itself more and more everyday, like a photograph coming into focus.” ~ Jodie Foster This past February marked the 3 year anniversary of the last time I covertly stuck my head inside a toilet and threw up on purpose. It was the last time I solemnly cleaned the crime scene afterward, […]
Something Missed {Poetry}
Once, upon a dusty stage, it was spring I think, his fingers grazed, my girl-soft arm, peeping from a white t-shirt, the one I wore on purpose, it made me feel pretty, he touched me, because he couldn’t help it, because he was a boy who wanted more, he was reaching, but in the moment settled for […]
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