Commercial Break!
- Orajah Cottrell
- Mar 12, 2024
- 2 min read
a mini showcase
Hello motherfuckers, in honor of nice weather and it truly starting to feel like spring, I thought I'd take a break from grilling your asses and showcase some of my other talents and things I've been working on lately. I hope you enjoy (If you don't, I have the perfect thing for you. Write your opinion on a slip of paper, lay on your side, lift up your top leg and shove that slip of paper right up your ass.) Once again, Enjoy!

“She never says words”
and if I did, what would you use them for?
would you turn over every stone
engraved with words I’ve said
in hopes that
they’d be marked with hints
leading you on a voyage to my heart.
would you weather a storm
in the middle of the ocean
holding all my unsaid words
and shaken away thoughts
just to make it to the island of my dreams?
would you endure dehydration
in the desert of my sweltering silence
out of blind optimism
that one day it will rain
things you never thought of?
or blast off into the gravity-less pit
that is my mind,
bouncing from galaxy to galaxy
trying to learn the ways of my thoughts
in hopes to always be following them?
“I don’t say words” pffffft, what do you want me to say?
do you want me to pitty pat around
and ask about your favorite color?
or your favorite type of snacks
on a late night Sheetz run?
perhaps you’d like me to point out all of my flaws
one-by-one
and give you a play by play
of how “one day I’m going to change them”
maybe
it’s all the things that deem me worthy
of your consideration
that you crave.
what exactly is it that you want me to say?
maybe it would help if you picked your brain
before coming over here
trying to scramble mine.
dig up some conversational matter
and maybe the answers you seek
will be the the answers you find.
I don’t say words
But I think them all the time.
strings and strings of them
lining my skull like
LED lights.
I keep so many of them
tucked tightly into the safe that is my mind that
sometimes the door gets wedged open
and they spill from my mouth
blowing my cover.
SHE SAYS WORDS!
(3.7.24)

(this one's a bit of an oldie but it still applies)
malleable (4:19:19)
sometimes I forget
that I’m not the woman I’m supposed
to be yet.
that I still have some growing,
bending,
s t r e t c h i n g,
breaking
to do.
that I am not complete in the eyes
of me so
I’m probably not the final product in
the eyes of any of you.
I am simply putty right now,
that has not yet been molded into clay.

on a quest
to take over the world
like thelma and louise.
blood is thick
but not thick as thieves.
it’s always a different scheme
on the road to
fully grasping the human experience.
instead of changing wigs,
we’re changing identities.
with no intentions
to stop moving.
(3.8.24)












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