because it is RAD!
T: Karla Faye Tucker
Karla died a little death
each time her pickaxe fell.
All that coming made her deaf;
she'd killed & had her fill.
A Texas warden took her in
(the mug-shot turned out nice).
Karla Faye got born again
to give her life back twice.
-Jennifer Colin Scaife
these texts are an archive of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area from march 2007 - march 2015. it stands as a record of close to a decade of my life, charting the struggles i faced as an artist, daughter, and lover. messy and chaotic at times, eloquent and poetic at others, these texts are an index i am proud of. it was here in this electric box that i learned how to be honest about my experiences and the person i needed to become. it was here that i first learned the truism that words make the world and how to trust such a beautiful, rife, hard fact.
Apr 19, 2010
i posted this poem last year for National Poetry Month and i don't care...
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2 comments:
RAD poem Angela. If only I knew what RAD means, is it short for radical?
Sometimes even with English - across cultures - things get lost in translation.
hahahahaha! you made me laugh out loud!
it is short for radical. 80s american slang. :)
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