stack of Woolworth magazines for five' an dimes i can't shop at #senryu

Lésê mwin fé mô chi koté mwin! Louvraj çé fini, é mo tré las! sakrémen! /let me get my ass home! work's done, and i'm very sleepy! damn!/

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Lésê mwin fé mô boundá lévê é alé prenn in lavmen vitmen! /let me get my butt up and go take a shower quickly!/

drèt astœr, mapé gaspiyê tem... 🙄 /right now, im wasting time.../

mo ginyin vini paré pou Louvraj ojoddi. /i have to get ready for work today./

poet his paper given back full of red pencil'd corrections #senryu

fatigue of childbirth our surrogate's face white with strain #senryu

the darkness of writing ink smacking while eating ice cream #senryu

whimsical—buying a mosquito net that i don't need #senryu

a friend leaves i become a customer servant again #senryu

'tungsten' such an old word...resolved not to fall to sleep #senryu

'i want a futon' quietly i lust after my colleague #senryu

putting away the summer robes winter slow in coming #senryu

Tolstoy's fight against death left a pot on the stove boiling #senryu

slicing turnips in silence my knife dull and uneven #senryu

cheap Christmas ornament on the table i hate death #senryu

wearing silk over his locs tonight grows colder #senryu

walking under streetlights the night quite chilly #senryu

television on mute rise and fall of the news cycle #senryu

maddi gra drums the streets littered with feathers and beads #senryu

finally heading home the amount of time it takes for me to arrive #senryu

his broad shoulders quite impressive leaving the curtains partially open #senryu

foxtail lilies in her hands a woman pensively moves around the space #senryu

in the Hollywood Noir Film, "Burning Sugar Cane" circa 1945, Director: Oscar Micheaux

all night workshift something charming about smokestack smoke #senryu

brewed tea before a nap dreams smell of honeysuckle #senryu

this senryu world a stretch of monostichs full of humanity #senryu

in white magnolia rain dirt roads turn darker than dark #senryu

attending another marriage time slows to an annoying crawl #senryu

green of a mandarin orange more potent than i am #senryu

(revision) gumbo filé death in a field of young sugar cane #senryu

gumbo filé dead in a field of young sugar cane #senryu

oleanders in various states of life a child's recalcitrance #senryu

'he's a bastard!' said over tepid coffee and *binyé's #senryu *beignets in Kouri-Vini

more than one lie told Congress still absent from the Capitol #senryu

queer folk: exotic flowers in an otherwise mundane world #senryu

awakened love - still he has his place and i have mine #senryu

the subject of 'love' varied—riding downtown for shopping #senryu

mishappened grapes i find most things depressing... #senryu

nothing's as it was ripened strawberries have no appeal #senryu

a man's depression often the unseen face of the moon #senryu

rapeseed blossoms rapeseed blossoms i am undisciplined #senryu

more lustful than the redness of an anemone or lily #senryu

slow walk home someone's doggy doesn't notice me #senryu

after being held last night ashamed he's a married man #senryu

the urge for acrylic nails—im exhilarated im strange #senryu

steamboat in the noon ive learned to tuck away my fears #senryu