HeyJaredQuYahni B Joseph
Writer, poet, fashionista, survivor, lover, smiler, hopeful, just here and loving it!
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- Sep 14, 2026
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when aging doesn’t look like halle and denzel (opens the original)
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Can’t Rescue This (opens the original)
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i don’t blame youi built this housewith leftover bricks from the last one that fell downas always, i notice only when the last brick is laid and the mortar is dryall the lessons of being kissed and broken led to the assembling of a love that drains and drags and leans to the side, food for my soul turned soul-eateri ponder if you know what you are in, if you know like i know how we keep each other in the low placesi might could probably make you leave mewithout a word, i could maybe, somehow get
Opening the Gates (opens the original)
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i play a game that i want to kill medodging the onus of ending itbecausemy body cannot take another swim in guiltcannot fathom living in the aftermathof choosing myself this timea cardboard box at the bendof a dangerous exit in thedead of winter looks so much more appealingthan playing house while my insides chip away at themselveslying herebeing a pillow-and-blanket forta soft place to landso desperately needing a pool to drown inyou do not know meyou will never trysuggesting you grow in waysno
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