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July 23, 2019July 23, 2019HeyitsTay

“Same, Girl.”

She always sat in the back of the classroom but not because she was a bad student. I’d seen the professor hand back her papers marked with words like “well done!” Even “bravo!” And, at first, it surprised me but eventually just furthered the mystery.   Her eyes were always sad and her hood on […]

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July 16, 2019July 16, 2019HeyitsTay

a word is a word is a word

a word a breath set to the rhythm of her tune

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July 13, 2019July 13, 2019HeyitsTay

andsoshewrote

she inhaled the weight of the world with each breath   and with each exhale fell deeper into the collapsed walls of a dream that she once called life   and she knew that even if her body kept moving aimlessly in the direction of death as all living forms do still her soul would […]

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April 9, 2018July 12, 2019HeyitsTay

black blood

They say I lay there for four hours In a puddle of black blood To me, it felt like minutes, seconds   There will never be enough time For me to comprehend What happened, why it happened   It was my fault for being there I was wrong for being a black man And for […]

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January 28, 2018May 1, 2021HeyitsTay

the moment i stopped believing in god the savior

I can remember the very moment that I stopped believing in God the Savior. Well, at least the series of moments. It went like this. Nineteen years old and as naïve as ever. Everything was great until it wasn’t. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I was in love with a man […]

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