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Flawless Writes Blog
Flawless Writes Blog
Flawless Writes Blog
Nov 11, 2016
A Letter to My Mother
Dear Mom, Every day you wake up, get dressed and go to work. You go to work where you don’t feel safe - as a woman and as a Puerto Rican....
Nov 11, 2016
i am real
do they see me Mama i wonder why you birthed me into this life destined to live with litany of strife it makes me want to cry bawl out my...
Nov 10, 2016
Untitled
I have never felt so scared to exist Not just in this place But in this body Brown body shaking Brown body breaking Brown body, don’t...
Nov 10, 2016
Nightmares
my spirit could not sustain the weight of the night each forecast the hideous heft of a nation’s hatred and abject apathy and so i...
Nov 10, 2016
Not My Beast To Claim
as Trump and the like celebrate and lie, with smiles on their faces, on their white, blood-stained sheets i hope they know they cannot...
Nov 9, 2016
November 9th
How the day should’ve gone: Text my family first thing in the morning, all caps all exclamation points: “WE DID IT!!!!!!!! WE FINALLY...
Nov 9, 2016
Tonight America
Tonight America is a cat-caller, lurking in the dark, gaze slanting in my direction, stealing ownership of my body with vicious words....
Nov 9, 2016
A Moment of Prayer
a moment of prayer for the non yt bodies who are told they are less for the bodies of little girls and grown women who are told their...
Nov 9, 2016
Red
I see my country become dotted with Red It bleeds over, state to state It makes my stomach churn Red marks Huge red marks Telling me...
Nov 9, 2016
Open Letter to America
Dear America, Today, you have devastated so many of my friends and me. I’m sitting in class heartbroken right now. But I refuse to be the...
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