Even though his Blackness is just a social construct he was still the first to lose his job followed by the Asian guys only then Polish Pat Because he’s learned early to be twice as good he passed the weld test with accolades for a job 25% above the usual rate the least he deserves because Dawn is my friend not his I’m up with him at 5:30 giving […]
It was so still the sound wasn’t moving the fog horn barely audible through the whiteness hunched up around houses all day finally lifting just as the sun set completely exchanging dim for dim the veil so thin now they’re asking us to hold our nerve finding the right distance our own truths known rules dissolving Where others felt restless she felt reckless pulling at silence prodding piercing […]
quote by Vahni Capildeo, Reading for Compass: Response to Mark Ford, Enter, Fleeing, in Skin Can Hold The air outside startles me so much cooler airier Whatever’s trapped here between thin walls of a narrow house recycled over and over by us two God knows by how many people before this terrace from the 1880s the carpet probably from the 1980s the night breeze barely finds us He lies […]
It comes down to a layer of protrusions called spike proteins forming a halo like a circle of light around the virus Most have trouble breathing the fever some say it’s like their body on fire fighting back beyond duty their mind slipping in out of consciousness while pain sits on their chest like debt Our lungs work on negative pressure […]
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