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Journals of Jo: Don't you Dare Make Me Happy
After waiting up for hours and hours until the sun came up over the horizon of the tall buildings in this dark city where we live and where
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Journals of Jo: I'm in a Mood
I’m in a mood.
And it isn’t because the cycle of life is upon me.
It’s because the cycle of life is ever upon me.
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Journals of Jo: White Privilege/Black History
You have the power to make the powers that be see me as a human being.
You have the power to turn the tide of racism to love and acceptance
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Journals of Jo: Euphoria
These cats weren't ever your friends and they never invited you to the table.Â
They always fed you and me, scraps from it when we were h
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WHO GIVES A Sometimes you'll feel like you're being used. You'll want to lash out at the world and curse at strangers just because they...
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Journals of Jo Bright: The Pledge
Because it’s never my intention to hurt anyone but to open people up to a better expression of themselves.
I won’t back down and cower befor
Journals of Jo Bright: The Span Between Us
A stately eagle or vulture or hawk flies by as they each survey their land.
Looking for prey.
The rushing waters of the rivers below seem
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Journals of Jo: I Feel Like That Girl
I've spent my entire life trying to be better than where I came from. Where I'm from, the girls there, don't usually make it out of the...
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YOU DON'T KNOW ME
You don’t know me
Because you’re not ready for me.
I’m sage advice.
I’m a life lived.
I’m the light in the tunnel.
I’m the friend when you
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A NEW NORMAL
But that very moment when you accept for a certainty that the loss, that it's real and permanent,
your life changes.
Sometimes it’s subt
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