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“I always wanted to be a sad white girl. I wanted to be sad like Lana Del Rey. I wanted a sadness so universal, it'd move everyone to tears. A sadness everyone could related to. "I want a summertime, summertime sadness".
My sadness is about domestic violence, homelessness, gender dysphoria, intergenerational trauma passed down from Salvdorean Civil War, etc, etc.
My sadness is something to observe, consume, sympathize, but NOT EMPATHAZE WITH (not to mobilize for). Most people do not know how to interact with my sadness. My sadness is so multifaceted, it speaks twenty languages.”
― Sad Girl Poems
My sadness is about domestic violence, homelessness, gender dysphoria, intergenerational trauma passed down from Salvdorean Civil War, etc, etc.
My sadness is something to observe, consume, sympathize, but NOT EMPATHAZE WITH (not to mobilize for). Most people do not know how to interact with my sadness. My sadness is so multifaceted, it speaks twenty languages.”
― Sad Girl Poems
“Every corner has a cop [coddling a liquor store]. Protecting their
Notion of freedom. // My neighborhood eats fear.
Mothers are getting // handcuffed & harassed. Homes are being
Crushed [like cigarette butts]. Everyone I know
Hates the racist police & wants a revolution.”
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Notion of freedom. // My neighborhood eats fear.
Mothers are getting // handcuffed & harassed. Homes are being
Crushed [like cigarette butts]. Everyone I know
Hates the racist police & wants a revolution.”
―
“Rory, I want to say that death is what you've always wanted. But that can't be the Truth. [This time] we can blame it on me. I'll be the packing mule, carry all the burden. & you, you can be a child again; fold your church hands like dirty laundry [crease them tight]. Nobody has to know about us, not my father
nor yours --
No, not even God”
― Sad Girl Poems
nor yours --
No, not even God”
― Sad Girl Poems
“Language is where the tongue fails itself over & over again.”
― Sad Girl Poems
― Sad Girl Poems
“[Let the bears devour our enemies]. We have no obligation
To open // ourselves // for those who do us harm.”
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To open // ourselves // for those who do us harm.”
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“I WONDER IT HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO
Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me
Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me
I hope heaven got a gay ghetto
Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame
Don`t feel too brown or black
Or femme or phat
Don`t get shame for being free
Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d
You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus
Shiet, he probably already got a picure
with white jesus
signed and framed on his wall
Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker”
― Sad Girl Poems
Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me
Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me
I hope heaven got a gay ghetto
Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame
Don`t feel too brown or black
Or femme or phat
Don`t get shame for being free
Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d
You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus
Shiet, he probably already got a picure
with white jesus
signed and framed on his wall
Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker”
― Sad Girl Poems
“Rory said he loved me but wouldn't hold my hand in public. & he wanted so badly to end the pain, but it never went away, it stayed with the people that loved him.”
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“and I will always root for the brown chef / and I will never buy the white sob story / because the brown chef don't need sob story / because what is the disaporic kitchen if not one bellowing sob”
― Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
― Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color
“I WONDER IF HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO
Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me
Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me
I hope heaven got a gay ghetto
Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame
Don`t feel too brown or black
Or femme or phat
Don`t get shame for being free
Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d
You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus
Shiet, he probably already got a picure
with white jesus
signed and framed on his wall
Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker”
― Sad Girl Poems
Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me
Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me
I hope heaven got a gay ghetto
Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame
Don`t feel too brown or black
Or femme or phat
Don`t get shame for being free
Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d
You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus
Shiet, he probably already got a picure
with white jesus
signed and framed on his wall
Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker”
― Sad Girl Poems
