Cohen Ezekiel

there’s a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes i threw them to sea but a gust blew them backwards and the sting in my eyes that you then inflicted was par for the course just as when you were living

Iraq War. Libya. “Too big to fail’ banks and Wall St fraud. Panama treaty. NAFTA. CAFTA. TPP. Keystone Pipeline.

Feelings deal with the moon, look at your moon.

9 Famous Faces On The Struggles and Beauty of Being Afro-Latino

Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black AND Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences.

The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every color and race imaginable – and explaining the difference between race and ethnicity can be quite a cumbersome task to take on on a daily basis. And yet, many Afro-Latinos are often forced to do so after being told they’re not “Latino enough” or being asked to choose between being Black and Latino.

Water Lilies, The Clouds, 1903