I see fire…
I’ve been missing in action for so long because I couldn’t bring myself to blog after another innocent Black man’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department.
Essay: “Fear and Desire”
“Fear and Desire” is a graduate school essay that reflected my struggle to reconcile what I wanted out of life to what life seemed to want out of me. Though my life has changed a lot since I wrote this, the basic message of it is still true.
A kiss-off letter becomes a poem
A now-former friend told me she has no sympathy for anybody who joins the military for any reason. Upon hearing this, I literally fell out in tears. Days later, she emailed me an apology that showed she still didn’t recognize the wrongness of her statement. The kiss-off email I wrote back turned into a poem.