A 2003 black BMW 6 Coupé with tinted windows slowly drives up Leslie Avenue. The car stops at the red light while the driver leisurely scans the lines of women standing across the street displaying a portrait of dirty rainbow. His eyes critically scan each women from head to toe; leaning against the dirty brick [...]
Reading the same structure or style of writing can become—well quit boring after awhile. I am currently taking an English class and I forgot how much I used to love learning different literary devices. Can’t say that I know how to put everything together or remember which tense I started with 100%, but without a [...]
Never in my wildest dreams
Did I imagine
This
Life of slow-motion pain
Unfolding like
Eternity
Goes the sparkle of my youth
My bewilder-stricken cry
And squelched hopes
Crushed by the pressure of time
Under the pull of daylight
In the fall of night
Kicking and squirming
From these tattered pages
Crumpled
And wrapped in bed sheets
Goes my long dead dream
Glimpsed only once
Of a bright and shining paradise
Where endless and [...]
My days are cold and the nights colder.
Inside of me there’s a hatred that warms me,
A blanket at night keeping me alive
Children walking barefooted are heavy thuds
Sinking in my heart, lost and forgotten, Atlantis—
I still believe; hope still shimmers in distance.
A serrated knife cutting bones, a screwdriver
Stuck between a fence-assembling machine
Are just sounds in tune [...]
