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I’m a queer-for-short Black American who is doing their best.

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Things to Write on the Bathroom Mirror After We Move In (with dry erase marker, of course)

Today, we’d like to challenge you to write either a monostich, which is a one-line poem, or a poem made up of one-liner style jokes/sentiments. GOOD MORNING すてきだね x (a heart is drawn, "ey/em" in the middle) "You're six feet above ground.

Two.

This one, to get it out of my head untitled There were bright colors in my fear. Once I am lured in by song The movie slowly turned, Entrenched by darker hues Falling from the shadows of malevolent flight. There's nothing delicate In fighting back, this time. Retaliation

If I Could, I'd Meet You Again

I wrote it this morning, and it just so happened to also fall into today's prompt: "a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met." As for the others out-of-order, I'll post

"How did NaPoWriMo Find Ya?"

It found me fine, I think. I have not written nearly enough poems for a poem-a-day goal (only 3-4 so far). The difficulty is to sit down and quiet myself, to listen to my inspirations long enough to actually write something. Stressors can get in the way of that. But

The Airing of Grievances

Bloganuary Prompt: What do you complain about the most? The one thing I bitch about the most? Heteronormality. Nah, scratch that; it's how binary everything freakin' is. No, wait! How I'm expected to be androgynous because I'm non-binary. No, wait, it's

What Could Have Been

You look so familiar but I can’t figure out Why I think that I recognize ya, don’t know what it's about It’s like a parallel existence, but I know that’s fiction Or is it? Or is it? Altern8 Endings by Mega Ran Two scenarios

The (digital) Move.

So. I moved my blog. While the timeline I had in mind would be over the span of two months, tops, I managed to do this in two days. It helped that I've had ClassicPress in a pinned tab for quite some time now, and buying the domain

The Party's Over

For years I've been passively looking at alternative blogging platforms; I'm one of the many that were dragged kicking and screaming into WordPress' Block Editing Gutenberg nonsense. I adapted, and even got used to it-- besides, I'm not a developer, so it was

oh, hello

I have a pretty solid finish to last month's Bloganuary, and then I... disappeared. This time, it isn't because I ran out of steam! But it was redirected elsewhere. There's the health issues I've referenced in the last few months, and that

First Computer

Prompt: Write about your first computer. Bloganuary is over, but I couldn't resist this prompt! My dad bought an AST Advantage! computer[1] from a coworker and we settled it on the desk in my bedroom. We were pretty excited, both of us being electronic gadget nerds in

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