poetry

Mar
12
Press photo for the poet Danez Smith

not an elegy for Mike Brown

When I first read "not an elegy for Mike Brown" by Danez Smith, my life changed.
5 min read
Jan
01
A woman in a crowd of people trying to see the Monna Lisa is turned in the opposite direction, looking at her phone.

It's 2024 And I'm Asking What's Good

So many things have happened since we last talked.
3 min read
Apr
21
A black and white picture of 20th street in Joplin, Missouri.

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.
2 min read
Nov
04
Drawings of white circles with black outlines that looks like a crude emoji of a heart, a smile, or a thumbs up.

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.
4 min read