I think I just met the happiest person in the world! Why are you looking at me like you don’t believe me? He was in the park. By the benches we smoke at, over by the gazebo. You know where I’m talking about. He was laying down on the bench just staring at the sky. I was sitting on the bench adjacent from him and I just watched him. Not to be creepy or anything, I was doing my own thing of course b...

You make me sweat

Your glare through my window in the morning is intimidating

Can I take the heat?

Will you be too much today?

Most days I can’t bare

But somedays when my confidence dares

I’ll go out

Look you in the eye

And smile

Because you warm me up

Dance on my glistening skin

Your light makes me tired

After hours basking in

When the darkness of the night brews

I wait patiently for you...

Lose power

Get smaller

A thought completely erased

No respect

Hate the game

Man, I wish I never played

A word on a page

A law falsely made

Hope for the future

Don’t trust the innocent name

A book of rights

That needs to be rewritten

By people of color…

Cultures of time…

livers of “umm… real life.”

A book of rights

That needs to be rewritten

And maybe this time

No woman’s tongue will be b...

Demi and Lawrence stand facing the open drawer in the kitchen. There is a beat.

D: The knife belongs to me.

L grabs the knife out of the drawer and moves it beside the pile of dishes on the island counter. There is awkward silence.

L puts his hand on the measuring cups.

D: My grandmother gave me those. She used to bake us brownies and I’d lick the mix from the bowl. My sister would lick the...

Lori is sitting in the chair watching her mother sleep in the sterile white hospital room. The bedside nurse is checking fluids. It’s been over 20 years since Lori’s seen her mother.

M: “FANGSSSS!”

Mother rests her head back on the pillow.

L: Did she just say ‘fangs’?

N: *laughs*

L: Fangs? What is she saying about fangs?

N: You haven’t heard the story of the bat that got struck by a truck?

L:...

J: What changed your mind?

A: Do you really want to waste time?

J: Every time I suggest doing something remotely fun you suddenly get busy.

A: Well the last time you were here I actually had to pick up my cousin from the airport.

J: Okay, but you always—

A: And that other time Harmony actually had a stomach bug. I was holding her hair back all night.

J: It’s not that I don’t believe you, I’m jus...

You want to know the way to win my heart?

The key to this untouchable safe

Safe from grimy little fingers—

Well yours aren’t grimy, I was just—

Clearly I have some bottled up emotions.

ANYWAYS

How to win my heart?

I’m not all the way sure

I know that if you give me food

It will instantly boost my mood

And I’m talking about something tasty like some home made Mac and cheese

that has just the ri...

Alliteration

A literal nation of

Latter notions that

Light the way

For better potions

A lateral ocean

That stretches through steep

Stations of stolen land

We owe them our

God given devotion

A better plan that

Places with no complacent purpose

Can repopulate the impatient

Part of our nation

We won’t dessert them

We take notes and

Take the tape of our tailored

Vision and talent and

...

“Hunt down the traitor, and bring them back to me alive,” Rose said.

She stood over the dead body with tears brewing in her eyes… I stood in silence. With one glance into her daring stare I could see the fear and anger inside her. With a promising nod, I grabbed my bow and hurried out the door to vengeance.

As I rode down the dirt road, through the courtyard, I could see Rose watching me throu...

Your warmth

Protection

Dogged determination

I can’t refuse

Kiss me

I love you

Please

Don’t make me choose...