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Frances Elizabeth Thrush

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

10 poems·Since December 2013

I am a composite. ​I was born into a family of composites - one a Mexican, and one a mix of European (though mostly German/scandinavian). My favorite foods were Beans and Macaroni and Cheese,but now I don't eat dairy or meat. I grew up listening to both Silvio Rodriguez and Raffi. I have been a composite ever since. I keep collecting languages because the more I learn the fewer words seem to accurately express. I have found that art speaks to me; that words, music, and lines move me. I have found a place for composites, and that place is in this world - learning, loving, and giving. I hope to do all of these things.

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labels

December 4, 2013

 

the thing about
labels
is I knew you once.
 
we like to pretend that labels don’t
affect .
we are independent of them
 
they of us
 
labels do not define us
we are more than titles
 
we use them as shorthand
abbreviations
a quick introduction
an impressive first glimpse
 
but the thing about
labels
is I knew you once.
 
you took your label
Tattooed it to your heart.
and pretended not to notice
 
your label made you one of them
one in a series
 
label 1.6.
 
that’s you now.
 
you walk like one
talk like one
think like one
look at yourself.
just like one.
 
but the thing about
Labels
is I knew you once.
 
hi
nice to meet You
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