Yep. Growing up, most of the adults I knew had jobs and lived in homes, not projects. It’s funny because when certain Whites claim we’re on welfare, etc., they describe the majority of WHITE families in the small town I grew up in.
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Evans Ikechukwu
for WHITELIES Magazine | Sep 2022
shot by Bennie Gay
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Spinning Yarns
I once said I had a mother.
To be honest,
I don’t even remember her colour.
I created memories with her from nil.
Screaming, laughing
In photographs unclicked.
A yearning that lingers still.
I once said I have been to a place.
To be honest,
I never had. Of me it has no trace.
But in my head, I have been
To every place I have ever wished.
My fingers trail maps
Just itching to begin.
I once said I knew the sitar.
To be honest,
I can barely hold a guitar.
Still, many mini concerts
I hold for myself:
Fans chant my name
And rip off their shirts!
I once said I had seen a film.
To be honest,
I wanted to impress, on a whim.
I have seen films aplenty.
Held discourses alone,
Thoughts threaded like notes,
Singing of their beauty.
I once told a lie.
To be honest,
I still don’t know why.
Countless stories I hold
In my heart and in my head.
But none will keep your attention,
So my truths are kept untold.
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So tell me, how can we still be friends
When we're just a love that didn't happen?
And can never happen?
Again.
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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth
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JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The White Lotus | 75th Primetime Emmy Awards
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Wonder why that happened. BTW, wasn’t it Republicans and the NRA that backed the Mulford Act in 67. A GUN CONTROL BILL aimed at disarming the LEGALLY armed Black Panther Party. Wonder why that happened as well?
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i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.
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