Grounded Exuberance

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If Then Else™ III © 2026 Ociola Samantha Williams. All Rights Reserved.

If Then Else™ III

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Excess At the bottom of a bottle On the floor of a barOccasionally… Behind the wheel of a car…...

Excess

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Petal Music Picking flowers in the skyJumping from cloud to cloudI encountered Pigtopus — smelling of kelp and stardust…...

Petal Music

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Breaking the News: Trump’s Bigger, Beautifuler Wall This just in! Very important news. Possibly the most important news ever. Coming to you live from the partially constructed White House Ballroom, currently under tremendous construction:...

Breaking the News: Trump's Bigger, Beautifuler Wall

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Fabricated i was toying with the idea of supremacy (any)revelling in its profound ignoranceits lack of… …...

Fabricated

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The Next Retaliation even if REVENGE is sweet VENGEANCE lies in wait © 2026 Ociola Samantha Williams. All Rights Reserved.

The Next Retaliation

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time on : time off Weekends sprintat the speed of lightMonday to Fridayat a snail’s pacedon’t talk to me about…...

time on : time off

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Love, Under Conditions Love woke exhausted. perplexed. vexed under a blanket of conditions in this, class. order. family my reflection…...

Love, Under Conditions

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Open Mic at the Beach My spider friend Phil is pristineThe sexiest spider you’ve ever seenI’ve known him since I was fifteen…...

Open Mic at the Beach

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Certain Uncertainty Maybe & AbsolutelyThe bestest friends in my vocabularyWhen communicating with meyou should know:...

Certain Uncertainty

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Lifted The sudden Destabilizing natureOf being called a “nigger”When spewed with Vitriol and contemptOr as normal indifference…...

Lifted

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You’re A Strange Trophy Animal Disclaimer: This entry contains racial slurs, racial violence, ancestral fear, and my usual attempts to process horror through inappropriate jokes....

You're A Strange Trophy Animal

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Apprehension From the sound of your voice touching my bodyVanilla musk drapes the roomYour arrival is palpableInto a lyrical dreamI fall away Thank you, Sammi Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash © 2026 Ociola Samantha Williams. All Rights Reserved.

Apprehension

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Taxonomy of a Sinner When I grow up, I’m gonna pretend to be Indigenous, then Asian, so I can experience diverse racism....

Taxonomy of a Sinner

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Identity Anxiety Audit Before I grow up, I’m gonna seal my fate in an envelope and send it to God via Jesus....

Identity Anxiety Audit

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Tuktu Island hopping with the Peary caribouWe stopped on Cornwallis for Arctic willow stewThat didn’t warm me up; now I’m blue…...

Tuktu

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Above Nanaimo Lakes after sleeping for six or seven monthsa Vancouver Island marmot invited me out thank you for thinking of me…...

Above Nanaimo Lakes