Tag: spoken word

the shaken soda can

Post author By Paige
Post date September 5, 2023
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There’s this existential dread That is seeping in This— Pressure building Like a shaken soda can Whispering the fizzles Of the explosion about to burst Before the whistling Of hydrogen gas escaping. I never seem to be short of advice Of how to grow up right. Each rule for perfection Wrapped up tight in contradiction. […]

Revisiting the Grave

Post author By Paige
Post date August 27, 2023
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When I was eighteen, I could not help but notice, like all teenagers inevitably do, that the world was pretty terrible. There was this anxiety that anything good to come from activism would be ripped away, chipped away like a sculptor chiseling marble. There are days that I still feel this way. However, somewhere during […]

a marriage

Post author By Paige
Post date March 30, 2023
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Dearly beloved
We are gathered here today
to celebrate the union

to write a graduation poem

Post author By Paige
Post date March 29, 2023
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To write a graduation poem
is to write a COVID poem
a poem I never wanted to write