write 5 things. people's names, places, emotions, a film title, song title, band, anything that sums up your day. do it each day on your listography for a year.

january. february. march. april. may. june.

best days marked with ✿

july.

• 1st: waking up to the carmichael show • translating the italicized french in giovanni's room • rosetta stone torrents • chicharrones soggy with too much chile • unique thrift store on elston with natalie and baby kasey ✿
• 2nd: a kid named karreem I used to go to west park with • eve escapes, hélène cixous • a pair of mahogany toms for aj • allena's house • always and forever, heatwave while swaying in a hammock ✿
• 3rd: waking up sad • paris blues (1961) • open books & the chicago french market • pizza hut slices and cinnabon • little boxes (2016) ✿
• 4th: my blue floral tlc pajama pants • grilled veggie burgers • sitting in the backyard with his family that I hadn't seen in years • 50% off sale at unique thrift • sunday crouching by the back door, afraid of the fireworks ✿
• 5th: a dog swimming in the humboldt park pond • biking to walmart on diversey with aj in white pants • click (2006) • "I'm tired of arguing." • tuck everlasting (2002)
• 6th: the long-awaited jack jones rejection letter • l'onde amère, keren ann • the smell inside kokorokoko • researching unplanned pregnancy advertisements with emon lauren • playing the pinball machines inside ground control with my love ✿
• 7th: "what do you think love is, chuck?" • "it's not right for you to assume you know what kind of time I have." • dying to be famous: the versace murders • the first text • what would you do?
• 8th: meditations for olive oil • "you're higher than a georgia popsicle!" • madonna on david letterman • christina aguilera e! documentary • falling asleep to a britney spears music video marathon ✿
• 9th: baggy overalls • locking myself out of the arts incubator • recalling my barista past to help george with his drink orders • gooey pasta with bread and butter • "I don't know if I wanna be with someone like you." ✿
• 10th: luminarts fellowship acceptance call • listening to an ocean sounds playlist in lovely cafe • oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dipped in black coffee • "where is blu?" • bought a six flags membership pass ✿
• 11th: olive pants + yellow creme button up + denim heels • a strawberry banana smoothie that tasted like a milkshake • write to the city goes to the chicago cultural center • the pedway • a beautiful return to wordplay ✿
• 12th: sunday got diarrhea • write to the city goes to the museum of contemporary art • belting out baby one more time with molly at the monroe blue line stop • watermelon mint lemonade • trolls (2016) ✿
• 13th: peter pan (1953) • red velvet slippers • strawberry shortcake in a jar • jamila woods x malcolm london pitchfork aftershow at thalia hall • celebratory burger king ✿
• 14th: bodak yellow, cardi b. • his plaid pants in the kids' laundry • "that's racist" t-shirts • looking at tiny paintings through a magnifying glass • jenga, twister, and whiskey shots in a black-owned brewery ✿
• 15th: steve irwin videos on youtube • growing pains • sewing shut a striped sundress • waiting for disappointing jamaican food at uncle joe's • patron & mango orange sparkling water
• 16th tearing pieces from a warm baguette • riding the rollercoasters barefoot at six flags • peach nectar • oreo dippin' dots • sleeping like a rock on the drive home ✿
• 17th: pulling fashion inspiration from waiting to exhale • joseline hernandez • bad girls club: s07e09 • teaching my first visual art poetry class at skyart • celebratory mr. brown's dinner ✿
• 18th: "choosing to decline an interview isn't the same thing as not fucking with someone." • welcome home, frsh waters. • finally booking my phoenix airbnb & breaking my silence with mama • the bad girls club: s07e13 & 14 • michaela's introduction to the wordplay stage
• 19th: an uber back and forth from the dmv • looking for my birth certificate in crates of mama's archived documents • zberry and a walk through washington park with snow • roses and hips, keren ann • an updated résumé ✿
• 20th: a blueberry peach smoothie and a cinnamon crunch bagel with honey walnut cream cheese • an interview with teen lab and my authentic self • playing faint, linkin park on repeat • hortense j. spillers, "shades of intimacy: what the 18th century teaches us" lecture on youtube • the reup with malik alim ✿
• 21st: the beginning of the braless grey tank tied up in the front • tension & release at the lady church meeting • sitting on the front porch with sunday during the storm
• 22nd: phoenix itinerary planning • britney spears interview with barbara walters • reciting eternality by bella bahhs into a camera
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