This morning I tell the kindest man on earth after two dates, you are good and you are not my man. My man is not as good as you.
CHELSIE DIANEThis morning I tell the kindest man on earth after two dates, you are good and you are not my man. My man is not as good as you.
CHELSIE DIANEI know this won’t always be a good deal for me I make it anyway.
CHELSIE DIANEDon’t get too used to being alone.
CHELSIE DIANEHour 36 of labor. I pull at god’s necktie dig a hole at the hospital floor.
CHELSIE DIANEIf your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.
CHELSIE DIANEA twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.
CHELSIE DIANEGod is a woman and like every woman has millions of years of men speaking for her.
CHELSIE DIANEYou loved me gray sweatpants and I loved you drunk on stouts and I am velveeta mac and cheese.
CHELSIE DIANEI will not believe It’s less holy to be human. I will not bow my head. I will not close my eyes to god.
CHELSIE DIANEI play with the nativity and tell mary she looks good in that color blue.
CHELSIE DIANEYou’re rolling me in coffee hands I’m u-turn smoked rubber coming back- oh I’m spent, ask on the still.
CHELSIE DIANEYou can’t go to a kindergarten teacher after me.
CHELSIE DIANEIt finally happened like I thought it might I run into you.
CHELSIE DIANEMy brother has not spoken to me in years. Something to do with Donald Trump or Jesus Christ or our horrible stepfather.
CHELSIE DIANEI keep saying over and over. I’m sorry but I have to go now you are not my person.
CHELSIE DIANEWhen I reached for what I wanted, they said I left my needs behind. But if all birds need is on the ground why then do they fly?
CHELSIE DIANE