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  • 3/30

    For Sonny Rollins, who quit performing publicly and only played alone on the Williamsburg bridge for a year, sometimes up to 16 hours a day. . It was so easy for them, with their eyes closed, bobbing their heads like ducklings. I was the body beneath, undulating some kind of tempest that ruffled their fine

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  • 2/30

    5 Years . After telling myself I wasn’t sad, and eating four spoonfuls of almond butter, I called my mom. . If I am this predictable, I think, the future should not hover so, breathing hot anxious into my ear. . She told me, she and my father hope one day I will live close.

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  • I’ve never done this. Poem 1/30

    I’m cheating a little, wrote this for a class, and it’s technically not April 1st anymore. Bite me. Songs Lost in the Surf There is comfort, being taken like this. Pouring out my voice, a thread unspooling into her depths, while wet mouths of sand suck at my ankles. I have always been drawn to

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  • Getting-shit-done music

    Getting-shit-done music Wherever you need to go, Oscar Peterson will get you there.

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  • One of my favorite photos from the trip. The Homowo festival in August 2010, Accra, Ghana. The drums never stopped.

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