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My favorite couple

A story and a Ramble

A little girl rides a bike into a candy shop

The shop owner hands her a lollipop the size of her head. She gives the owner a dollar, they give her back a nickel.

The little girl takes the nickel over to a jukebox and slides it thought the slot.

Her lollipop hits a buttons before she can even tip toe high enough to look into the glass.

A reggae rock guitar burst out of the juke box

The little girl jumps back in astonishment

The guitars blares and snares

It twist and turns until the little girl has risen to her feet to dance with the music of the moment

A women comes running into the shop

She sees her daughter dancing with this music and snatched her up

DONT EVER LEAVE MY SITE

She drags the little girl out and leaves the shop in a warmth that awaits its next customer

Mother and daughter travel down the street

Daughter waves at each person they pass

The flower man and his beautiful bouquet hair piece

The waiter taking a smoke outside the cafe

The old women feeding a stray cat

The three kids skipping rope outside of an adbandon convience store

They travel to the end of the next street, Where mother places daughter next to her on the bench.

Waiting for the next bus.

A jogger and his dog run by

The little girl counts the clouds in the sky

And older couple approaches the bench.

The little girl jumps up to make room

“oh no sweet heart”

“We’re doing just fine”

“Take a seat”

“We insist”

THANKS!

“And so polite”

“How old are you my dear

The girl looks to her mother for confirmation to talk to these strangers

“Oh she’s just shy”

“Oh I bet”

“Well you’re a very pretty young thing”

“Georgous as a goddess”

“And I’m sure just as smart as any princess would be? Am I right”

YES

She speaks with no hesitation

The compliments brought roses to her cheeks

And a smile that stretched to reveal each section of teeth

“OH WOW”

“THAT SMILE”

“what’s the square root of 144”

12!

“OOOOOOOOO”

Collectively everyone exclaims

The bus pulls up

They’re ready to go

And for the first time

All day the little girl is greeted with a white face behind the doors and behind the wheel

How many white faces did you see?

How many black faces?

How many different colors did you imagine?

How many shapes?

What about about bodies?

Who were these people

Who were they to you

If you saw them differently did it change the story

What story?

Why them

What happened

What if this was all just to tell you a story about black faces

Black faces

BLACK faces

Black bodies

Black conciseness

Maybe I wanted to imagine a flower bouquet on a black mans head

Now that he’s black do you see an Afro?

Or is he bald?

Is he identified as he biologically?

Or socially

Why him

Why flowers

What’s his story

What’s the girls story

Who does she become

How does she see the world

What is the world

What world do we want

What world do we see

What world do we hear

What world do we know

What

What

What why

What

Huh

Okay.

Black face

Not paint

Black face

Face

Human

A story of people who reflect what we know and what we don’t know.

The close and the unknown, the unexplored, the ... question mark? What did we really do here?

I’m gonna sub coffee for water and throw In a song and dance.

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If this is what God calls today

I can’t wait to see tomorrow

Naomi Osaka of Japan hugs Serena Williams of the United States after winning the Women’s Singles finals match on Day Thirteen of the 2018 US Open 

“Modern Degenerate”

A Collaboration with Cass Meehan & Rose Slavin

Black

Native

Queer

Woman

Non-binary

Artist

Activist

Humans

Breathing

Living

Humans

Who’s voices will never be silenced

Who’s art will not be controlled

Who’s feelings will never be censored

Who’s creativity will roam and explore

Live and breathe

On its own

In this world

The modern degenerate

The outcast

The dream

TBT 💙 @leauwkey

5/26/18

We use each other to move each other

We push and pull

Till we’re both fulfilled

I speak you listen

You guide I follow

You challenge me to be it all

You challenge me to be my best self

I inspire you I think

I challenge you to see a different point of view

I challenge you to be great

You love me

Purely

You love me in a way I’ve never seen before

You loved me as God Loves us all

You loved me unconditionally.

You never forget about me. I always said I was a Christian, but I saw God when I met you.

You were always there when I needed.

You didn’t know I needed you but you knew to call.

I didn’t always know I needed you but I was always glad when you called.

You are always patient with me

You give me the space to be

You make me want to

Your spirit gives me permission to open up

Your being gave me the encouragement to want to be free.

I always wanted to meet someone

I could grow with

And here I am

catching myself bloom

I always said I was a Christian

But I never met God until I met you

One day you said I love you

and it felt like the most comforting words. I felt accepted.

It felt so Pure

You said you loved me and I believed you

you said it again and again

And I couldn’t breathe

you thanked God for making me

and I thanked God for making you.

One day you said you didn’t love me

Because of how I looked or what I could do. You didn’t love me because I made you feel a certain way

You said you loved me because you loved God

You said you loved me simply because you do.

Your spirit saw mine and they grew and glowed.

They loved each other

We brightened each other’s lights

I saw God in you and it brought to life the God in me.

I’ve heard that words 1,000 times

That God is Love

But I never knew those word till the Day you said them

I had never met God until I met you

These Boots 😍

Accept.

Love. Accept. Repeat.

“Souls are funny things. They stay constant even when the outside changes, or when the heart makes mistakes. Souls don’t really care about good or bad, right or wrong — they’re just true.”

— Miranda July