Who wants to go on a walk with me? (Polk to Presidio, SF)
A Cali-forn-i-a Kinda Day… California! Coming home! Palm trees always make me feel safe. California, baby. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
MoreEverything
Nihonmachi and a Good Day.
I was too busy enjoying the warm sunny weather today to really take anything more than a few pretty pretty photos to try and capture the feel of the streets. For all the hatred towards Asians, me and the Boy feel pretty safe in Japan Town. It was bliss today! Bright sun, the blossoms just […]
MoreThe danger of wishing and other forms of false hope
If there is something that I can’t abide it is false hope. Wishing, wanting things to change, seeing the buoy thrown out to your drowning self, and finding that all the air has gone out of it. Give me no hope at all, rather than hopes dashed. I am not one to let myself be […]
MorePermanent Milk Stains
Motherhood leaves permanent milk stains on you. While the kids play boy as girl games and people enquire as to my pronouns, I want to show them my permanent milk stains and flash my own personal womanhood in response to their ridiculousness. What else can I be? Can I sew on a dick to my […]
MoreRoad to the Past
Sometimes to get to the past you have to travel, eyes shutting, can’t help it, earing ringing from tiredness and caffeine, and the road, the endless road at night, the roadlamps and the blinking lights, and the halogen lamps and the chugachugachuga of a worn out suspension down the potholed 5. The gas station drinks […]
MoreEast Side Cinderella
A East Side Cinderella sits waiting For a cab that will never come Holding a borrowed black umbrella A suitcase And a stolen gun A picture of a boy reading “to all tomorrow’s parties” Between finger and thumb A crackerjack ring, a toy car of tin And a promise of things That won’t ever be […]
MoreDown and Out in San Francisco
Tents on Geary, Tents on O’Farrell. Tents on Union. Tents on Civic. No tents on California. No tents in the Marina. A few tents on the Embarcadero More on Willow. No tents on Russian Hill Where it is an eternal May Tents in the ‘Loin: All work, no pay. Tents in Mission, But none in […]
More