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nothing serious

Poetry — the embers in your touch don’t leave any marks on my throat. we are cigarettes with clearly labeled warnings — more honesty here than in the Forever of commitment. we know: statues on pedestals don’t smolder like this. best to take a long drag, fill each other’s lungs — each other’s blood — let it burn for a bit, then flick the ashes away.

Poetry

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Poetry

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A Love Letter to My Beautiful, Depressed Self

Hey, love. Listen. Sometimes depression is just a thing you have. Sometimes it ain’t going anywhere. You can do all the work and troubleshooting, putting in effort and doing what you should with nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, gratitude, mindfulness, therapy, medication, and so on, and still… you know, have depression…

Inspiration

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A Love Letter to My Beautiful, Depressed Self
A Love Letter to My Beautiful, Depressed Self
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Homelessness Sparked My Lifelong Love of Literature

Thrift stores — and nights in my Corolla — led me to the power of books — When I was 19, I threw a mug of hot coffee at a framed wall tapestry my dad purchased when he was in Italy. …

Homeless

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Homelessness Sparked My Lifelong Love of Literature
Homelessness Sparked My Lifelong Love of Literature
Homeless

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May 3, 2022

On the Privileged Outrage of White Liberal Feminism

If the tears and outrage of white liberal feminists dictate the energy of the entire anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal movement — which is to say, if brutality and political violence upon ‘lower’ classes is generally met with apathy and brunch and gossip about Johnny Depp, or perhaps with talk of voting…

Feminism

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On the Privileged Outrage of White Liberal Feminism
On the Privileged Outrage of White Liberal Feminism
Feminism

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Apr 10, 2022

Philosophy and Mindfulness are Pillars of a Complete Life

It’s worth overcoming initial skepticism to add these crucial tools to our lives — An admission: I usually skim or outright skip the lengthy cooking-recipe-website-esque intro paragraph(s) before most articles get going. Shitty ones usually serve the same rhetorical purpose as the headline, and if I’ve already clicked the thing — as I’m aware you have — then I’ve already bought in and the…

Philosophy

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Philosophy and Mindfulness are Pillars of a Complete Life
Philosophy and Mindfulness are Pillars of a Complete Life
Philosophy

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Jan 12, 2022

blue girl

in 7th grade i dyed my hair red. bright, fire red. it was great; i looked like Jean Grey’s filipino bastard kid. for 3 Christmases in a row i asked for a bass guitar. the one i got that year was red as my damn head and i brought it…

Love

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blue girl
blue girl
Love

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Nov 23, 2021

hyper vigilant

to whom am I a burden, and to whom am I a gift if only I could just ask, without the complicated waltz of neurotypicality, the norms of polite deceit and blahblah fucking blah so instead of asking I hunt for clues, sensitive and vigilant and poorly calibrated, every data…

Poetry

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hyper vigilant
hyper vigilant
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Oct 24, 2021

self care

Poetry — sometimes self care is a nice walk or some yoga sometimes it’s a burrito the size of a secret Republican baby sometimes it’s a blunt or time with your cat in a cuddly mood sometimes it’s bingeing a good show or time with friends or time alone sometimes it’s drinking water or watering plants sometimes it’s a bath or tidying up or a bit of art sometimes it’s writing a poem or reading one on Medium

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self care
self care
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Oct 19, 2021

hagiography for a war criminal

Poetry — they said the general is dead We said good. they said how dare we speak that way of a man of great deeds, a man with accolades and prestige, sworn loyal to the nation’s creed We shrugged. they called him politician, diplomat, statesman. their voice shrieked from the screens: we are the news! who are you? We called him war criminal, liar, murderer, tool. Our voice blossomed from the soil: we are the culture, we are the truth. And we are not your fools.

Poetry

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Poetry

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Oct 9, 2021

tantrum

Poetry — i started writing a poem about the brutality of loneliness. i scribbled something like, “how is it a heart can detonate in complete silence,” but couldn’t find what else to say. then i saw the ‘publish’ button in the corner of my eye, and pushed it anyway.

Poetry

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Poetry

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Michael Guevarra

Michael Guevarra

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Bay Area writer, punk sociologist, and feral poet // editor of The Anticapital

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