“the oven hangs open like an interrupted sentence”

“The way the north will always be jealous of the south”

“Art that seeks to remember the tragedy of hate crimes.”

“Our villains don’t get funerals. We have unmarked their tombstones.”

“Hashtag: cancerfriend. Hashtag: pre-cancerfriend.”

“My brother requested postcards. Cheery pictures of faraway places to take his mind off of his pepto-pink cell walls”

“I looked down and saw it: my first prosthetic arm”

Hospitals, prisons, factories, and ships.

“blue acid wash Guess jeans in size zero. My thighs still touch…”

“What were these women saying outside of affirmations and dicks?”

“My therapist says medicine is making great strides”

“My ex noticed when I started to change my feet for another dude”

“The gnawed apple core,
nameless body in the river”

“…that it would be like knowing her fully, completely…”

“The streets must be a free space…”

“I don’t want to hurt you with ugliness, but maybe…”

“just like a wedding but without the groom”

“The strangest thing about someone dying is that it isn’t strange at all.”

“Ghost stories of faith and ideology.”

“I could remember every word to every song Prince ever wrote. Sign.”