People You Know By Heart

  —AND, YES, YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS PERSONALLY     Love in the Time of COVID   Let’s take off  that extra layer  that black mask loosen every ...

    —LUCK CAME DOWN AND DIED ‘ROUND HERE     All This Life  / Joshua Mohr     --The world is a search engine.   --How can he tell his son th...

—I WAS FAR TOO SCARED TO HIT HIM, BUT I WOULD HIT HIM IN A HEARTBEAT NOW     Another Brooklyn —Jacqueline Woodson   --I know that what is tr...

—I’M NOT THE FIRST ONE WITH WOOL OVER MY EYES   These F**king Poems, Man   Another poem likes me better dead, better embalmed or keenly scal...

—I FIGURED OUT A LONG TIME AGO THAT I NEED HELP     Milk Blood Heat —Dantiel W. Moniz      --She hadn’t realized empty was a thing you could...

  —IN MY MIND, YOU’RE ALWAYS THE BRIGHTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM, THE ONE EVERYONE SECRETLY LOVES, AND WANTS     …I don’t normally post out of ...

  —WHAT I’D REALLY LIKE DAD IS TO BORROW THE CAR KEYS, SEE YOU LATER, CAN I HAVE THEM PLEASE?                                THE THING ABOUT...