six days ago they had a good job in the city
friends and family all around them
now they test homemade molotov cocktails
against a wall in the back yard to fight
the occupation #katyamills
six days ago they had a good job in the city
friends and family all around them
now they test homemade molotov cocktails
against a wall in the back yard to fight
the occupation #katyamills
they are rediscovering the land
looks different than before they
went through war but there is war
no more. the scars cannot be seen
only felt. my friends got married
before they planned. called up by
their country. honeymooned
on the black sea
#katyamills
the trial to extend his time in the labor camp was the great joke that was not funny. Russia concealed it masterfully behind the useless war with Ukraine. forty miles of tanks! all the newspapers across the globe would have had him in the headlines otherwise, to display this Kafkaesque affair. one thing calms Navalny's frayed nerves is to study the curve of the muscle in his arm as he extends it to help a weakened comrade. working day and night for so long now he knows he is as strong as any man his age and could easily knock VP to the ground and maybe some sense into him, too.
#katyamills
climbing the walls of our will, numb and detached from purpose, deep in despair, entertained to near death, technologically baffled, compulsively obsessed, imagination fraught from lack of use, cut by seven blade razors, telemarketed, stuck on stupid, shot at by solar flares, inundated by cell rays, frozen in synthetic fear frostings, sucking on substitute sugars, dipped in electromagnetic confection, infected by ad campaigns, propped up by pharmaceuticals, shuffling whole food aisles, storage wars won at auction, amassing detritus in space to the gills ... modern life can get pretty blasphemous. i gotta claw my way out of it. chaos toppled by order toppled by chaos. i gotta go deeper. below the muddy quicksand of modern life lies firm and solid virgin ground. bedrock. you cannot see it but it is there. resplendent as the throats of bullfrogs in spring. #katyamills
singing while stocking the grocery aisles, a young man makes work a little joyful. unintentionally serenaded i get a little anxious picking up my root beer. the case slips from my hands. the cans they pop off and shower us with foam. under the lights he lifts up my chin. don't cry. runs his large hands through my carbonated braids. this was meant to be. #katyamills
i was on the couch with milk green tea. a book resting its wings on my chest. my nerves were playing hard after one of those days you wanna forget. what was left of the light, deflected off the silver ring you gave me, and found a home in the flowers. they say when a planet gets too close to the sun, its atmosphere begins to burn off and leaves a smoky trail in outer space. after countless years it is stripped down to a scorched rock. culture. dedicated to breakdown and cracked in the teeth. well well, i thought, earth still got its atmosphere and i got one, too. i don't give a damn what they say when they don't know what they're talking about! the thought of this calmed me and i drifted into peaceful sleep. #katyamills
it was hardest to have to go on
without a comrade on any
kind of battlefield
everything was too much
these days. even ceremony
they went to pay tribute to Navalny
the true secret leader of Russia
because that's what you do
starting strong the voices began
to crack. tears and decency
prevailed
#katyamills
#katyamills
i am star free i am
overcast sky
all the bad habits i
traded them in 4 something more predictable
something more certain
uncommon
i blackened Hollywoods
digital rolling
eye
i am grateful
i shot myself out of
the sky
i gave up
expect nothing
work real hard
listen well
keep your word
speak honestly
admit mistakes
honor silence
question the many thoughts
endure the pain
feel your feelings
care 4 those who cannot
care 4 themselves
show kindness
show courage
be you
#katyamills
on a winter morning i
fixed my bed head with scrolls rolled into
curls from all the earth's wisdoms
any sign of trouble i
reach up 4 them
if you've lived long as i have
you know life is chess. think
before you move
#katyamills
what with all going on in the world i began to think it a rather scary place and even alexa or siri or the music i streamed could hardly make me feel less insecure about our fated obvious future. i asked google to tell me jokes and laughed for a diversion. then i bought this cloud online for a supposed great night sleep well it jumped out of the box and laid down. later that night it tossed me into my boyfriends arms which could have been seen as bringing us closer together. our insomnia kicked up and my boyfriend got up and left me lying in the center composing an ad. it read: cloud for sale. sags in the middle.
#katyamills
in the year of the tiger
i promise myself to hunt down good books
in the protagonist i see
myself. awkward at the party
inflated with passion of they convictions
breaking the matriarch's cherished vase
i laugh and go to bed
#katyamills