• prose

    The American Flag

    Refugee bans are as American as the protests against them. The mindsets behind both are deeply woven into the fabric that is the American flag.

  • prose

    Looking For God

    Obama ran his campaign on salvation as hope for the future. And Trump ran his campaign on salvation as reclamation of the past. Bernie told us the truth...

  • prose

    Let Me Help You

    This has been a weird sort of two weeks for me. Brexit‬ made me feel angry and powerless to help my friends of African and Indian origin who were facing unjust persecution in a land they loved, and then ‪Alton Sterling‬ and ‪‎Philando Castile‬ were murdered in the land of the free so I found a small release for my powerlessness – I could donate to their families, throw money at them and feel… less impotent. Then I realized, wow, I’m a piece of shit; here’s this amazing device for intercontinental connection and voice, and all I’m using it for is as speedy means of deriving some sort of self-satisfaction…

  • prose

    Pissed

    Blessed strength be upon you UK friends, for as much as I wish it did, it never gets easier being shown that the world you love doesn't love you back.

  • poetry

    sohbet

    Mystical conversation; often, the closest we come to surrender is orgasm but we’re past that…