not an elegy for Mike Brown
When I first read "not an elegy for Mike Brown" by Danez Smith, my life changed.
It's 2024 And I'm Asking What's Good
So many things have happened since we last talked.
I came to Missouri to write poetry after 20 years
It wasn't my first choice to be a software engineer. I wanted to be something else. Something more romantic. Something that had to be earned. Something that other people told you was true about yourself.
I hate the Internet, the way it pretends to be your friend
The older I get, the more I realize that back in college, when I was trying to figure out what to do for a career, I let my insurmountable fear of being poor get the better of me. Code starts to die the moment you write it. I should have been (should be?) a poet.