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The Thinking Woman’s Guide To Compulsory Hetrosexuality

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsOctober 1, 2022October 1, 2022

Juliet in Memories: First Kiss

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 31, 2022December 20, 2022

Writing the Past by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 22, 2021April 22, 2021

Seeds of Destruction.

I left home after my father strangled me, wrapped his hands around my neck after I asked to go out to watch a movie. I didn’t ask for money, I had a weekend job, I just wanted to go out with my friend. Let’s call her Naomi. Naomi was a sweet girl from a nice […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsApril 1, 2021April 1, 2021

All Fools Day

Errands for tartan paint, kick me signs pinned to gullible persons backs, washing lions in the Tower of London, pranks and japes, both jolly and ill-advised all mark the 32nd of March. I’m with Chaucer, don’t even name the day…and don’t play any foxy tricks on me. That is not to say I don’t enjoy […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 29, 2021May 10, 2021

Permanent 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 […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 27, 2021May 10, 2021

Confessions of an unwilling fashionista

I have never had much money, there was a period in my youth where I spent a little on clothes, but mostly clothes were free, or very cheap, I rarely had more than three changes of clothes – and still don’t, all my money went on guitars, drugs and travel. What I wore really didn’t […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 22, 2021May 10, 2021

Out of Time-Capsule

So here is the deal, I went to sleep some time in the early 2000’s, distanced myself from everyone I knew in the gay scene – from my male gay friends, and our nights split between lesbian bars and gay clubs with unlikely and descriptive names (careful not to out myself here!), from my girlfriends, […]

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 8, 2021March 9, 2021

Happy International Women’s Day…I guess….

I’m sincere in my simplistic grouchiness. It is all well and good to celebrate female excellence, female power, female stoic holding on being women in a man’s world, to celebrate for a day. It is all well and good to offer each other support and pats on the back, but it isn’t nearly enough, is […]

Poems by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021March 4, 2021

Tanka. Juliet Rising.

Girl in black dress kissed girl in striped socks amaretto bravado under-pass passed-over them both disinterested in their amorous embraces