unrevised

Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself. Don't let the ink coagulate in your pens. Don't let the censor snuff out the spark, nor the gags muffle your voice. Put your shit on paper.
-Gloria Anzaldúa




jot some words on scratch paper one night. i want to add, "prepare a new canvas."
reading some poetry from My Words Consume Me: An Anthology of Youth Speaks Poets.