The Christian tradition may denounce gluttony as one of the Seven Deadly Sins, but I encourage you to take the pomegranate and engross yourself mindlessly with the fruit. Wash it of its remnants of Earth. Cut off its crown. Dissect it into sections. Savor the seeds of choice and autonomy. Consume fervently to think freely. Allow the stain of red to run down your arms and body. Paint yourself anew.
Read MoreAnd doesn’t that sound so nice? Isn’t it so easy to make the terrible lovely?
Read MoreI used to love movies. Then I stopped.
Read Morethe sea waits for the stars to open the sky.
Read MoreThe pain materialized in my heart, mind, and body simultaneously and consumed my every gesture.
Read More…between cold arms on the sheet, i search for the new moon who, without warning, has disappeared.
Read MoreI calculate if it’s ethical to kneel in this political climate.
Read MoreMy blue carries out my wishes and imagination, splaying itself across the foreground of my lively imagination as I fantasize about my future and my lover, living in the city of my childhood.
Read MoreI objectify her with the eyes of the man of my worst nightmare, internalizing her body parts as a collection of props and comparing them with my own.
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