Outgrowing My Mentor

I sat at your feet; only metaphorically. As I remember it, I sat on the couch, as you, with your strangely…

Why #AllLivesMatter Makes Absolutely No Sense

Lily-white suburban lives have always mattered. It’s African-American lives and Hispanic lives and women’s lives and gay lives that we toss away like they’re used banana peels. 

Even A Lifetime Loser Can Find True Love

I do not care how old you are. If you keep trudging ahead and don’t give up completely, there is love to be found. Real, fierce, passionate, gut wrenching love.

Cheap Motel Room Blues

Another day, another room
and you
wet, warm and willing
We shed our guilt and our shame
just like our clothes
and leave them lying on the floor