Ace of Spades

by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Sometimes I feel like I’m so lost in my own world, I don’t notice the things that seem so obvious to everyone else.

I have to stop myself from apologizing – because what would I even be sorry for? Existing too loud?

If I lose this, I lose everything – but if you lose me, you still have everything.” Why doesn’t he get that he’s a huge chunk of everything?

I can “fix” the kinks in my hair, but not the kinks in this whole system that hates me and Devon and everyone who looks like us.

Stories are cooler when you hear how everybody else experienced it.