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Category Archives: emo

Joriel and Sagan

My two favorite people. Joriel looks so adorable in this picture I could just eat her up – as I told her at the time, she “looks like someone I’d very much like to know.” She, and now my son, make me crazy in the best and worst ways, and I can’t imagine my days [...]

sage

we named him Sagan, after the late Carl. one of my heroes.
everything has changed, kinda. yet i still feel like me, even as i type this one handed, infant human cradled in the other.
last night: we had the birth at home, in a large tub of water in the living room. joriel [...]

returned

a conversation with my friend Amani yesterday inspired an idea for an altruistic service: a means for people who had taken something that didn’t belong to them to return the thing to the rightful owner, anonymously, through a third party (me). they would donate whatever they could afford to cover the shipping costs and any [...]

moving in stereo

unicorns! mars! d&d! i actually enjoy getting associated with these sorts of things. though sometimes i worry that i don’t “do” these things often or deeply enough to justify the tags. so much of it goes on in my head, where others (i assume) cannot see it – but then, i’m not much one for [...]

i wish somebody would do something about how needy i am

i would have already assigned myself to having this all end in tears, if not for two things: one, “this” will never end; two, i barely know what “this” is.

swallow

how’s the old heart today? oh just great fucker thanks so goddamn much for asking
DONT TRY TO FRONT A BROTHER WITH A HEART OF STEEL I GOTS CLANKITYCLANK I AIN’T EVEN USED now that we’ve gotten that out of the way i think it’s time we had sex SMILE AND NOD
don’t think this changes anything. [...]

night, on my back porch

richmond lies sleeping
but in my secret city
something is waking.