The Phoenix In Me

As an aspie, I needed my freedom just as the wind comes and goes I needed to be alone So I discouraged them from seeing me and shut myself into the closet I wrote and prayed and ate and slept but I never felt myself falling out and away from life I wrote of dreams […]

Beauty, Breaking, and Choosing

Paint me a picture of what tomorrow has to offer children rejected at distant borders young wives lose budding husbands to filthy coffins paint me a picture with the blood of aborted fetus paint me a picture with the anger of disbelievers in the White House where Trump says any and everything paint me a […]

Am I Just Fucked?

I don’t have anxiety I become afraid when you’ve caught me in sin I can stare you in the eye I do it to your girls every night I can hold a conversation because the people I watch most don’t speak I don’t gain weight I lose my strength with every release I don’t pray […]

Real Talk

  Criminal minds dance on the airwaves telling the minorities that they’ve come to save all the forgotten, all the lost peeps always a shot away from 6am news on these dark streets you can feel the beat of a glock nine or a car crashing into a stump oh, is it time for another […]

More Afraid Of “Yes” Than “No”?

I hate change. I wake up the same time: between 6-7am wear (basically) the same clothes: some combination of jeans, T shirt, and jeans eat the same food: eggplant wraps, sandwiches, fruits, salads, occasional fast food, donuts do the same thing: work, write, read, watch the news listen to the same music: Fall Out Boy, […]

The Problems With Aspergers and Shame

  As me, Devereaux, I do a lot of things. I work at a coffee and donut shop. I write poems on the way to and from work. I listen to Fall Out Boy and watch American Dad. I read books and talk to my best friend about school and teenage life. I run this […]