it’s been almost five months since i last released a poetry project. i’ve definitely been doing a lot of writing, but senior year of school has been busy, and since i’m taking a poetry class, it’s been hard to focus on the poems i’m writing for the class, as well as my own. wanna make sure they don’t overlap and all. anyway, i now have a new mini-album, which i call “tragedy.” true to the title, it’s a fictional, overarching story that centers around tragedy. originally, it was going to be a full-length project, but after writing the closer to this mini-album, i felt that i had stretched the concept as far as i possibly could, and thought it’d be best to leave it at that. for the most part, the project has been done for a few months, but i waited to release it because i wanted to make some changes based on things i learned in my poetry class. also, i wanted to show these poems to a few people before releasing them. most of the time, i don’t do that, but the content on this record is extremely dark, uncomfortable and triggering, to the point where i wanted to show it to others before i released it publicly. fortunately, i feel it’s ready to be released, and i’m very proud of it. again, these aren’t really personal stories, as i wanted to challenge myself with this mini-album to work with more adult themes, as opposed to talking about myself. and of course, trigger warnings are in full effect here. these poems aren’t comfortable, but i feel that poetry isn’t inherently supposed to be, so i hope you check these poems out for yourselves:
1. state of mind
2. thread
3. gay
4. him
5. lives lost
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