Sorry I Didn’t Wait Till 8 March To Speak
Yesterday I was introduced on stage by a misogynist host. After I performed a piece about womanhood, another man began harassing me.
The Marriage Certificate LOC
Marriage becomes a political boundary between people, turning them from friends into people needing security checks & visas.
Aren’t You Glad I’m Not Carrie?
I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.
The Doomed Relationships of India
It ended because he assumed it was what he thought and what he had to say. It didn’t even occur to him to think of what I was thinking.
The Lone Runner On The Treadmill
Everyone I know is on a treadmill. I wish I knew more people like me. The ones that tried getting off it.
The Showwoman Under The Paper Plane
Paper Plane & coffee
Scarlet Woman
I’m in heartbreak. I’m Scarlett O’Hara pining for the virtues of Melanie Wilkes. I’m some other kind of woman.
Poem For An Ex I May Have Told You About
I had a chance to get this off my chest last year. I’m so grateful for the stage giving me a chance to voice things that had been eating away my insides for too long. I’ve been silenced by well-meaning friends and others who are just inconvenienced by anything other…
And Then There Was Music
I sang. There was music.
The Grand Villain And A Concrete Wall
Heartbreak. It’s hard work getting past it but hard work never scared me. It’s lack of hope that terrifies me. Yet, my automatic reaction has been to freeze up into a wall of silence, stoicism, concrete hardness. There is no hope beyond a wall of that nature. I decided to…