Spoke this poem at a Day of Silence LGBTQ+ convention
Preview: When innocence is dressed as protection
The lines get fuzzy
Because I can remember times when my age cost me my innocence
And my innocenc...
Trigger warning: Focus of suicide
Also: I am in no way shaming the National Suicide Prevention Helpline.
They do great work in terms of saving lives.
But in this poem, I adress how sometimes, an autom...
You need to work hard. You need to work harder. You need to memorize your spelling
Like the twenty-two-thousand nine-hundred and forty-seven
kids who go to Harvard.
Thy work hard. They did it perfect...