Guilliean reads three of her poems; read along with the poems while you’re listening! World Out There I know there’s a big world out there I’m just a girl with striped underwear. I go to sleep every night Creating lives I’ve never lived. I talk myself down from the dullness…
Author: Guilliean Pacheco
Guilliean Pacheco (she/her) is a Filipino-American journalist and copy editor by day; poet and creative writer by night. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from the University of San Francisco and is an Anaphora Arts poetry fellow. She's also a member of AIR, ACES, IWW FJU, and Uproot. She’s a misplaced California girl who lives in Las Vegas normally, if one could call living there normal, on Southern Paiute land.
Season 1, Episode 002: A Pale Orchid Kiss
Guilliean reads three of her poems; read along with the poems while you’re listening! Pale Orchid Happy people are sickening No one is ever that happy all the time It feels so good to be bad Fighting against the pure I let the rage fester, poisoning my conscious Blistering pustules…
Season 1, Episode 001: A Genuine Zombi Dance
Guilliean reads three of her poems; read along with the poems while you’re listening! Zombi Not the glamorous ghouls from the movies Or the pending apocalypse from the books But the ones who wear monkey suits Plasters on a fake smile And pretends they are not dead inside Like me….