Guess What Bitch, We Back Hoe!

eggphrases.com will soon be on Substack, and also still on eggphrases.com. After a brief writing hiatus brought upon by, I don’t know, a massive …

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Here I am just waiting, yeah

What’s up, hoes. Where do I begin? The things I’m been consuming lately: I’m currently, slowly making my way through n+1’s The …

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Ladies, leave your man at home

Is the club ever jumpin’ at 11:30, like Beyonce says? In Jumpin’, Jumpin’, by Destiny’s Child.  When we were coming back from brunch, I was…

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Dub-i-dub, i-dub-i-dub, bub-bub

The mind really is a breezeway.  There’s a Boiler Room set I watched on YouTube with the most eclectic mix of all time–it was ¥ØU$UK€ …

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Digital girl, from a planet named Earth

The point is to sit down to write. You can think of something you want to write about—something grand, something that speaks some truth to life …

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ドキドキするわ Friday night

I’ve been trying to keep mental track of my dreams lately, and I’m finding I’m doing a better job of remembering them, but they’re usually odd and …

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manic producer boyfriend, manically typing girlfriend

Today, I think I lost the post-vacation brain glow. That’s ok, though, since I’ll be going to Japan in less than a month. We’ve settled back into …

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Sometimes I rhyme fast, sometimes I rhyme slow

I was talking to my boyfriend yesterday on the phone. A long time ago, maybe last year, he said that if his life was a song, this would be the …

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I used to be seventeen

Now that I’m older and my dreams a little more dead, I realize the importance of being outside. I think about how the relationship I have with my …

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There goes my shirt, up over my head

I don’t know why occasionally I try to deny some parts of myself. Like right now. I decided to smoke weed. And write. I think that’s one of the …

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We only keep it real when we joking

“I learned just as much from them as they learned from me. I’m a cold motherfucka though. But the people I’m with are cold too, they’re a …

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We’re all connected now, stay composed

I’m sitting on the roof with a bottle of wine. Inside, my overpriced Marshall speaker is playing “The Metronome” by Pinegrove. I can hear it …

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Ooo wee ooo wee ooo I can be your percolator

I’ve been thinking about radicalism lately. Radical honesty, radical empathy–those kinds of things. Lately the pit in my stomach–the kind that …

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So long aphasia and the ways it kept me hiding

It’s 5:40 AM. I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I got taken off the schedule at work–something I knew had to happen but nonetheless made …

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Why you bother me when you know you don’t want me

I’m not sure where to start. I could start with my feelings of trying to vindicate myself: of trying to convince myself, prove to my own body, that…

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Awkward silence, like when the grenade a dud

Thinking about things. Holding space here. Lyrical, poetic genius that goes unrecognized. Keep going. Thinking about all the talented people I …

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But I couldn’t stand to lie next to you

Time will tell, but from my experience time is a very reluctant communicator. And I’m impatient. By the time it takes time to divulge something to …

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Come skin your knees with us, life’s too short for a business lunch

On not getting it till you feel it, you’re in the swirl.  It’s been a minute. And by a minute, I mean six months, about. I’m trying to turn…

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excerpt of the day: monday, february 6, 2023

We begin at the surprisingly clean apartment of a very talented friend. Dalia is sitting at her computer, working on her copywriting job, while I …

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spectral for days on end these days

Any music is good music, any art is good art. You just have to be willing to make it. And leaving it unfinished for now is okay. The only thing …

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