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The Thought Residencies

Oct 2, 2020

Hi, I am Tsholo Khalema,  this is my first thought.

 

Black Lipstick on a sunday morning

Sipping on balck cherry mimosa topped with mint. 

 

She looked beautiful. Her milinated, being sun kissed by my eyes.

 

You're catching me on a good day, a scab goes blacker as the healing process is maturing, regenerating perhaps....


Sep 30, 2020

This is DM, and we’re at number twelve.

I used to work at a nursing home, at the reception desk.  As a result, I was often the first point of contact for families visiting residents.  This one guy would visit his mother about three times a week.  He was nice enough, but never chatty.  One night he comes in, heads my...


Sep 30, 2020

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my eleventh thought.  

I recently got into a thing with a collaborator about whether Han shot first.  Not really about if he did or not, but about whether it matters if he did or not, and whether that is a thing worth saying.  It matters, I assure you.  If you’re a...


Sep 30, 2020

My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my tenth thought.  

I have these red boots.  I love them.  As soon as I saw them I knew my life would change if I could only have them.  Then I got those boots.  I love them.  And I almost never wear them.  They are those things that are so special, too special, no...


Sep 30, 2020

#14 NEVER NOT TRYING

This is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard with my fourteenth and final thought.

I am trying my best.  I have grown so much and changed not at all.  There is a small part of me that is untouched by injustice and cynicism.  A part of me still open to criticism.  There is still a portion not smudged with...