“I always wanted to be a sad white girl. I wanted to be sad like Lana Del Rey. I wanted a sadness so universal, it'd move everyone to tears. A sadness everyone could related to. "I want a summertime, summertime sadness". My sadness is about domestic violence, homelessness, gender dysphoria, intergenerational trauma passed down from Salvdorean Civil War, etc, etc. My sadness is something to observe, consume, sympathize, but NOT EMPATHAZE WITH (not to mobilize for). Most people do not know how to interact with my sadness. My sadness is so multifaceted, it speaks twenty languages.” SadnessDepressionGender Book:Sad Girl Poems Source: Sad Girl Poems
“Every corner has a cop [coddling a liquor store]. Protecting their Notion of freedom. // My neighborhood eats fear. Mothers are getting // handcuffed & harassed. Homes are being Crushed [like cigarette butts]. Everyone I know Hates the racist police & wants a revolution.” PoetryFearPoemRacismPolicePolice BrutalityPolice Harassment Author:Christopher Soto
“I WONDER IT HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me I hope heaven got a gay ghetto Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame Don`t feel too brown or black Or femme or phat Don`t get shame for being free Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus Shiet, he probably already got a picure with white jesus signed and framed on his wall Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker” HeavenPoemDiversityLgbtqia Book:Sad Girl Poems Source: Sad Girl Poems
“I WONDER IF HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO Lorde know(s) cis-hets don`t like me Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me I hope heaven got a gay ghetto Where my QPOC family don`t feel shame Don`t feel too brown or black Or femme or phat Don`t get shame for being free Don`t get lonely, don`t get sa(i)d You know, he`s gunna meet white jesus Shiet, he probably already got a picure with white jesus signed and framed on his wall Mother Mary // Virgin Mother // fucker” HeavenPoemLgbtqia Book:Sad Girl Poems Source: Sad Girl Poems
“[Let the bears devour our enemies]. We have no obligation To open // ourselves // for those who do us harm.” LovePoetryHatePoemHarmEnemies Author:Christopher Soto