childhood
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Why AIDS Is Important
Hi, my name is Jake Stann, i’m 10 years old, and
i’m a fourth grader at Gaëtan Dugas Elementary;
The Trap
The sky shedding the soft blue of a Sunday afternoon, burns sharp orange pathways across the horizon.
5 Poems
Daay-am, Mumpsy!
You livered outta da splat box
Class
I was going to school at the time, back in the days when I was blindly bamboozled into thinking that a college education would make or break my future.
Concorde
Knew I was pregnant the morning after the Frenchman fucked me.
The Sticks / Oil City Prison
When I was in fourth grade
I went to a Lutheran school
in the sticks
Auditing Session
The helmet has been placed on his head. He’s been attached to the machine.
5 Poems
Pushing back her violent hair’s
nimbus of corpses, each clinging
to its thread of Pity me, please
My Brother, His Mummy, and Me
My brother starts high school in the fall.
Screaming and Other Things That Sound Like Death
Of course, it’s imperative that I am the way that I am.