Jessamine

“I’d give my life just to lay my head tonight on a bed of California stars”
― Woody Guthrie

“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.”
― Rudy Francisco, Helium

“A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS”
― Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild