This space will consist of my poetry, thoughts, occasional musings, and short fiction.About Me:
MFA Student (Poetry and Publishing Arts), Writer, Author of Taste: An Erotic Fantasy Series, Classical Pianist and Instructor, Former English, Drama, and Journalism Teacher, Thinker, Reader, Talk Too Much(er), Perfectionist, Magician/ Tarot Reader/ Spiritualist/ Pisces Sun/Leo
Moon/Leo Rising, Luvaholic, Lover of Learning
Lines and Stanzas
*Inspired by The Color Purple
That One time
You showed me your Heaven
I searched it
And When I found
There was no way
that I could take its credit
My pride sat like a razor to my neck
And refused to move until
I tore it all down
Woman, You…
(via earthtoyaya)
*Inspired by The Color Purple
That One time
You showed me your Heaven
I searched it
And When I found
There was no way
that I could take its credit
My pride sat like a razor to my neck
And refused to move until
I tore it all down
Woman, You…
(via earthtoyaya)
Opens Tonight, Apr 5, 6-8p:
”Altered States”
Valerie Hegarty
Marlborough Chelsea, 545 W25nd St., NYC
Hegarty’s depiction of destruction is a departure point to examine larger issues of erasure, repression, the uncanny, metamorphosis, death and rebirth. Hegarty painstakingly crafts her works from foam core, papier mâché and ink-jet prints on canvas that she then paints, carves, twists, drapes, amputates, and grafts to create mutated originals where the fictional disasters behave as a catalyst for the works coming back to life. - thru May 5
(via forrestgumper)
In celebration of Madame Ross’ birthday, why don’t you take in a viewing of ‘The Wiz’ tonight?
It’s gotta be online somewhere…
(Source: uppermost)
This is a story that isn’t getting the traction in the press that it should. I posted the case about Howard Morgan not long ago here.
Morgan was a veteran police officer in Chicago. He is black. He was shot 28 times by 4 white officers. 21 of those shots were administered to the back of his body. Morgan never fired a weapon, and a witness corroborated that. In fact, one of the officers took Morgan’s weapon away from him. Morgan was acquitted of aggravated discharge of a weapon in 2007.
Some key facts via this online petition
Howard Morgan’s van was crushed and destroyed without notice or cause before any forensic investigation could be done.
The State only produced 3 of the 28 bullets shot into and taken from Howard Morgan’s body, whereby the rest of the 25 bullets could have shown whether or not the police officers who shot Mr. Morgan shot him with his own gun after taking it from him.
Howard Morgan was never tested for gun residue to confirm if he even fired a weapon on the morning in question.
The State never produced the actual bullet proof vest worn by one of the officers who claimed to have allegedly taken a shot directly into the vest on the morning in question. The State only produced a replica.Despite all this, and the fact that Morgan was earlier acquitted of firing his own weapon, Morgan was found guilty of attempted murder of the 4 white officers who shot him 28 times, with 21 of those shots having entry points on the back of his body. How does one not fire a weapon, get shot 28 times by four officers, and then be found guilty of attempted murder? It doesn’t make sense.
Morgan is set to be sentenced in April. More info here.
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.
James Baldwin
BALDWIN!!!
(Source: crudamoral, via blkcowrie)
