Archive for June, 2008

Time for all if it to be set down.
All the never could, should have but didn’t.
Move on, your not them. They can’t touch you anymore.
Remove their fingers from your brain, loosen their hold on your heart.
Tight grip doesn’t allow it to beat a full beat.
Time to set yourself free.
All that’s left  is to  start to [...]

Graciella held court every friday on the brown rug. she had lived in this apartment in the projects ever since their place in Bushwick burned down. The city relocated Abuela and her family to the Ravenswood projects in Astoria. It was there after a few decades that she began to reknit the family that remained [...]

She broke my thumb. It was like someone hit the pause button on a broke ass VCR. For a moment, there was some static and a glitch in the playback, then the movie continued on. It, like everything else, never worked they way it was supposed to. If I wanted to stop this one, I [...]