Poems from Jerney
Unique...
I first learned to use this word
to describe my family situation.
"No, no, no-- you've got it all wrong!
Fighting only makes us...
Shaving used to be just a razor before glass before safety pins before my nails before
I still think there was a before but my mind...
Survivor's guilt sounds
like my sister getting beat in the next room
for something I know I did.
That's the thing-- I did.
I did not. Did...
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his--
Nope.
It was a knife mama
Put inside my stepfather’s abdomen
But he deserved it.
He...
By the age of nine,
I knew this world was no place for me.
I learned that if a tree falls in a forrest and
someone is around to hear it,...