Tagged: privilege
perhaps when we add
perhaps when we add
up all of our privileges,
it makes sense that we
can spend an afternoon, aching
with an indefinable pain
.
20180816:0752
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to have or not to
in the backyard, all
in the backyard, all
alone with our
fig tree – the
realization
that i didn’t have
to choose
.
20171110:1932
y
every third hour, there
every third hour, there
is a slow sliding into
contentment, or an
okayness with the world, being
alive is a navigation
.
20170412:0726
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it’s all well and good
it’s all well and good
to state that we will not show
up, that we will take
to the streets, show
solidarity by stepping out
of housework, child
care, maybe apply
some self-care at
the local beauty
parlor, therapeutic
spa. meanwhile, a
host of silent women
will step in
to fill the gap, make
the lunches, file the
nails, listen to and
nod and listen to the
ones who insist on
being heard
.
20170308:2149
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own up to the
own up to the
privileges you have
and all the ones they
think you have, my
mother told me. no
one wants to believe
any differently,
prolong the magic
.
20170223:2027
y
not crying in the
not crying in the
shower because it’s cliché
allows for half a
dozen other options,
like turning the valve
all the way to the
right until the heart
clinches, or turning
it fully left until
conviction melts.
then there’s always
the option of turning
it off – some people
consider crying
in the shower,
while others
stand in long lines
waiting to fill their pails
.
20161112:1256
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