the american dream
The fight first arrived in the dawn hour…
War in the remote highlands of east Africa severed me from my
dreams of tomorrow
I flew across the country on an unexpected trip, gasping to escape the orange haze of smog and poverty that
the many faces of quitting
I dream that long after I’m dead, my girls will look back at their teenage years and yearn for
puberty redux
I often forget things I don’t know.
Naked, slimy, and bloody, we’re all born entirely void of the