love tastes weird. Love tastes like welcoming growing pains. metallic like blood. like the red necessary to spill for the heart to expand. islanding two bodies onto a capsuled selfmade sanctuary. Everyone has deeply imbedded trauma. Poets just know how to ask the "right questions", like maybe I do not wish to exit my body. I wish to dive deeper into it. Fucking Santa Cruz. Eat your yuppie organic quinoa and don't somehow overdose on DMT, Ken. Capitalism really tiring me out. No wonder my dreams been wildin. No wonder everyone's has. There's a wholeass dimension we visit every night. At least most of us do. I'm a night owl as fuck, like 3pm still asleep night owl. Ive never gotten too much into stocks but imagine it feels a lot like being a fulltime artist. the word investment. looks like two sides of a mirror that can't recognize itself. the "i" becomes "t" at the end across "t" in the middle. he feels like "t"s both are mirrors. the two "n"s at opposite ends agree with each other's face but the "e"s between them feel a bit off. "v", "s", and "m" have no reflection. Sometimes i feel like V until I stare veraciously into a violet mirror and find a violent god fragmented all over my virile body like viscerally broken glass. Other times S slithers up my spine and tells myself my reflection is silent. M mumbles muted muses under his virilously violet skin. Most of the time I am M. And thank that violent god, i guess. Cause I'd rather not bleed snaking crimson rivers all day when the mirror shards forget my name. I think i know what love tastes like now. Love tastes like welcoming pain. metallic like blood. like the red necessary to spill for the mirror to expand. islanded. isolated. two bodies into a capsule. selfmade sanctuary. i'm learning how one body alone can reconstruct its own skin into something safe. home. I guess love tastes bittersweet. Candied orange peels dipped in tumeric. That actually sounds fuckin delicious. Maybe, some love does too. 📸: @xiimmmennaaa #queerartistsofcolor#bayareapoets#portraitphotography #portraitphotographer #brownboyjoy#healingtrauma #bayareawriter#loveisweird#loveyours#selflovequotes#lovequotes (at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBQkaAlBhQ/?igshid=1pmvhn2svwlrg