You learn later that the adults never learn later
That they keep smoking
And the bottles are just now hidden under their beds
That the salts and sugars on the soul food never lessen
And their parents arguing still lives in their heads
That the morals you grew up with just must be the ones that lay in your casket
Says your grandmother “that a…read more

Dear inner child
My sweet inner child
I love many things about you
When crayons smashed against egg shell colored paper became
keys paired with hours of a blinding screen
You sat behind me in a torn computer chair
Yelling
” type faster, dork”
When our first and only love
in middle school
Turned into our second and third In our teenage yea…read more