[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJm0pCbHB6Y] History Project at fifteen I decide to do my history project on nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands time to learn my own history, I decide I weave through book after article after website all on how the US military once used my island home for nuclear testing I sift through political jargon tables of nuclear weapons with names… Read More
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sbtpazYra0] Lessons from Hawaii LESSON NUMBER 1: FUCKIN MICRONESIANS! that’s my seventh grade friend cussin at the boys across the street rockin swap meet blue t-shirt baggy jeans spittin a steady beetlenut stream yea one of them’s related to me You know, you’re actually kinda smart for a Micronesian And that’s my classmate who I tutor through the civil… Read More
my last days as a bay area kid was high top sneakers sliding off my feet and into your bed heads of white sage burning black through eyes rolled back and sliding down my lips concrete grips our hips across shattuck as we walk wooden like the lizard sliding through your stone heart boxed in we bart through frisco fog… Read More
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