5.- my city and me in couple's counseling
maybe
this is the midpoint
or turning
point. i am displaced
in my city and my city
is displaced.
so i write.
i write my white lens and
my white grief
i call it
Baltimore burning.
Baltimore City - Station North A&E District
maybe
this is the midpoint
or turning
point. i am displaced
in my city and my city
is displaced.
so i write.
i write my white lens and
my white grief
i call it
Baltimore burning.
everything is the Multiverse now
always
it occurs to me
that trauma
the accident
the assault
the termination
the break up
the assault
the election
the assault
the assault
it all
the trauma
knocks
the assaults
us
the assault
loose.
I co-host the longest running poetry slam in Baltimore, and I represent the DMV at the National Poetry Slam seven times and the indiviudal world poetry slam 5 times including...
Oh, and I book huge tours and get invited to Paris to rep the country (like, this one) and before that I go...
And I was finally friends with my ex again, and...
it happened on tour right after i won that big tournament and quit teaching it happened in california and someitme it feels like it keeps happening and happening and it followed me on tour and in europe and as a writer and my ex stopped calling and
ugh.
In the main picture of this portfolio, the one with the suitcase, you can make out a few scraps of brown paper. It's been gradually disintigrating in backpacks and the pockets of my pants since I wrote it years ago. I don't type it up. I don't memorize it, and that violates every bit of my slam training. I performed it twice. One is recorded. The guy who filmed it made it private out respect. Real talk, I'm not sure I know how to alter privacy setting on...anything, really. But if this particualr clip isn't accessible, that won't be the reason.
Funny. Theses are so long ago, some of them. And still, they don't just feel like who I was, they fell like who I will always be. And it's comforting. You know?
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