The first time I hear someone use ‘gay’ as an insult, my body rejects it but my tongue— The acrid taste of the word pricks the inner lining of my cheek and I try, I try, I try to swallow the word whole it spews from my mouth fully formed “Yeah, that’s so gay”. What […]
Month: October 2017
Viva Las Vegas
I sound like a broken record, a chorus stopping and staring from apathy to tired tears. DJed by a neglected needle of a dusty player that hasn’t turned off since 9/11. The lights in Vegas will never shine as bright as they did in Viva Las Vegas, or as they did before Stephen Paddock’s domestic terrorism […]