The police officer had already decided Philando was a threat before he even approached him in the car. He already had decided he was dangerous based on his ‘ wide nose matching a suspect of another crime.’ He already perceived himself in danger before a word was shared between them. His perceived threat put him on hyper-alert which interacted with a probably terrified Philando, who...
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Coin after coin makes a clinking sound as it drops into your insatiable piggy bank. You sit with your eyes bulging with greed, hands motioning for the next, feet kicking with joy, intermittently shaking the bank in your pale, boney hands. You hide behind a noble cause, you hide behind a team of passionate people, but the longer these people work underneath your thumb; the...
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My dog believes every thunderstorm is the second coming of the Christ and will certainly end us all, as our souls are far too blackened for redemption, the grim reaper will arrive just around the next storm cloud to doom us all.
While it is a rare occasion that I have to hold a conversation with you, whenever I do ( out of social duties/ norms) you never fail to show me why I avoid having any conversation with you.
One would think with such limited contact with a part of your own flesh and blood, you would savor the minutes and use them for connecting, but...
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Sometimes I feel like the word ‘ bi-curious’ is just as much of a repellent as ‘virgin’. I find women intensely attractive, I always have! But this was an area I did not allow myself to touch in my formative years because the formers in my life were so closed- minded. When I left for college this part of my mind began to expand but...
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one from last year:
This obnoxious gnawing.
It waxes and wanes
And chips and flakes
And melts all back together again. A steady, constant predictable state .. necessary. Yet boring. Frustrating and easy to take for granted, take advantage of or simply ignore, resent and feel spite… and pity, distaste and complete misunderstanding.
A new beginning of a flicker, immediate danger. Red. Flag. Keep going…...
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older one I found:
You snuck your way into the corridor, I saw you there, indifferent to the threat you carry. I let you linger as I watched from my lackluster corner.
Slowly you sauntered my way, and I failed to flee, I failed to resist, I failed to put up a guard, and allowed the security of my mind be breeched.
You saw, you...
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