Hey little girl
Hey little girl today might be your last day and you still haven’t told him how you feel when your head meets the steel of the speeding automobile you’ll remember my words that you now can’t do anything about.
Month: October 2015
when
When his ex who was your best friend before they fucked starts following you on Instagram and your natural reaction, of course is to look through her pictures and see if she’s ugly yet, or lost that slight mboch flavour you knew well and loved, if the burning desert sun has worked wrinkles into her […]
Titanic
The easiest ship to sink is a mother’s heart You’ll see it when it happens, when she looks at you, eyes and soul heavy with a dank disappointment about who you have chosen to become – not her, not anything like her, and not anything she wished. You see the hope fall and you let […]
The Strange
1 So strange, how before the light of the newness fades you still look into my eyes like I contain the secrets of all planets, all universes then as the eclipse passes I become just another star 2 It’s strange the things one remembers when unhappy You would think the memories would be black and […]
I have no time to be lied to by you.
I have no time to be lied to by you. If you want me, want me, fiercely, wholly, under a thick spotlight of truth. If you need me, say so, often. If you want forever, then fucking commit. If you want our dreams to be ours, forge them with me with magic and the harsh […]
Ake Festival Submission Story
I applied for the Ake Festival Grant, but I didn’t get in. Figured I would publish the story here, though. ‘The central theme of the competition is travel, which references geographical or physical movement or in the broader sense which encapsulates migration or mind travel. Submitted work must be original and unpublished. Africa must be […]
Sun kiss
Jazz piping out the speakers like a Saturday morning with someone else’ s kids waiting on a sun kiss to take off my jacket and live.