you’re not any good at this,you know everyone is being politewhen they say they want to hearwhat you have to say they’re worried about your meltdownsabout your fragile emotional state it costs them so much to be honestand so little to just lieso they liethey say you’re a good writerthey say you have interesting pointsthey…
Author: Clio
red
red is the momentthat rage devours despairblood dampens waterfire dissolves tears i was drowningin an ocean of bluesuccumbing to the darknesssliding into the slipstream but we can drownor we can burn we can collapseor we can overcome we can slide between the wallsand disappear into the shadows or we can claw our wayback into the…
girl
a letterto the girl i never was i’m sorry that you didn’t have a chance to be i wish i could say that i knew you were thereinsidewatching the worldbehind a web of masculinity but i was trying too hardto fit into not be mockedto stand up myselfto make my father proud little me didn’t…
histomath
i never liked historybut now i can tell youthe pythagorean theorem was known well before pythagorasalgebraic notation does not appear in the kitab al-jabrbut it has some really neat geometry in itthe vinculum appears commonly in three placesover the radicand even when it’s not neededover repeated decimalsand as the fraction barbut otherwise it mostly lost…
golem
i was made of mud and twigsand tufts of grassand stones from the riverbed my bones were logsof fallen treesdestroyed by insectseating into the core i was moldedinto the shape of manwith layers upon layers mud upon logsmud upon mudclay riddled with rockspocking my skin i was formedi was deformedi was reformed and left to…
invisible
one daywhen i was invisiblei climbed into a windowof an abandoned houseon the other side of the tracks it was the industrial part of townwhere the air was heavy with the rancid smellof lubricating oiland rusty auto partsand the sweat of menwho knew what manhood was but now the tracks were overgrownwith thickets and broken…
04.01.23
April is Poetry Month. Last year, I was originally intending to write a poem every day. On the first day, though, I had this “flash fiction” story I wanted to get out of my system. One month and 50,000+ words later, I had yet another November Novel that I was going to be committed to…
Set Theory in Elementary School
Note: This is not a polished edit, just some somewhat disorganized thoughts. Hopefully, I’ll write something more organized later. For a long time, I thought I understood set theory. Then, a few years ago, I realized I had somehow messed up what is a fairly rudimentary concept: That sets, by standard definition, do not have…
03/29/23
At the Mathematica exhibit at the Henry Ford, there’s a thing where ball bearings go around and around like planets around their sun, except their orbits get smaller with each rotation. As they get closer to the middle, they speed up, and it causes my brain to itch as they get into their final descent…
there’s an outfit i keep in my closet
there’s an outfit i keep in my closet it doesn’t fit me anymorebut it’s what other people expect me to wear i slip it on when i need toand i try to keep it clean not pristine and pressed, mind you:it has to be rumpled enough so that it looks like i still like to…