The Joy Scribbles

and my darling told me  when he misses me,  he basks in the sun. closed eyes basking in the kisses of the rays. That it never takes him long to see his skin peel and remember that’s how I feel.  I’m sorry.  I’m sorry I do not burn softer. 

“ I will be loud and vulgar and angry and me. So change your ways or shut your racist mouths. Use your liberal rationality to unlearn your contempt for me and my people, or shut your racist mouths. I am not going to eat myself up inside anymore. I am not going to eat myself up inside anymore. I am not going to eat myself up inside anymore. I am going to eat you. ” —  Rosario Morales ,  I am the Reasonable One  (1986)