Tagged: outside
these are the moments
these are the moments
when we will feel hot and cold
all at once, waiting –
always, always from the outside,
looking in, helpless, hopeful
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: hopeful
every home appears
every home appears
peaceful from the outside. inside,
the dinosaurs on
the windowsill are rebelling
and building a lego trap
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: dinosaurs
on the curb, outside
on the curb, outside
of our window, an idling
truck, predawn, weaving
its big, noisy, trucky dreams
into our great brooklyn ones
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outside looking in,
outside looking in,
inside looking out – some days,
we add one more layer
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after i
after i
fuckin’ hate you,
you are the
worst, there is only
storming out, even
when it is well
past midnight, below
freezing outside,
and you have
woken up the neighbors
again, but it’s no
one’s business
to save you
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we don’t go out of
we don’t go out of
our way to not have
black friends you said.
i got out of bed this
morning and pulled on
the white narcissism
as white guilt robe, not
making me any less
yellow. i am going through
photos from last night’s
mardi gras party and
commenting on the
homogeneity. from just
inside of the outside
looking in, are we
simply cleared of
racism by showing up
for all the protests while
toasting to our own?
as a card-carrying
insider-outsider,
the lines blur while
the gears in the well-
established system turn
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after some time, a
after some time, a
new ache becomes
an old ache,
from the outside
looking in
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