My Co-Worker
"My co-worker makes parole. / No goodbyes. Just disappears one day." More
Young Girl Twenty
"The type of chick that young thugs’ll wait on, / and older catz lose they weight on / Modestly fly, sour chicks couldn’t play Dawn" More
All of Us, In Prison
"some prisons, by the night, / will never let you go, / and some prisons, in the light, / will never let you go." More
Self Portrait as State Property
"Eleven A oh six seven one they call as the boy not quite a man / Moves further down the line like a lamb in a slaughterhouse" More
As I Hear the Rain
"She had / Never understood my fascination / With the smell of dirt and fertilizer / Trapped in rows of rotting wooden benches." More
Time Reversal Invariance
"It used to be that physicists / thought the world might run / the same forward as in reverse: / that is to say, we had no means / to know which… More
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