i had a dream. you were standing in line for concert tickets. for us. i was waiting in the car outside. i could see you through the glass. when you got back to me i realized you only bought one. for yourself. we had a big fight. i was outraged again. you could see i was hurt and nothing could be done about it. emotional i pulled away from the curb. deep in the heart of a city. i was full of adrenaline and losing it. i stepped on it and drove that old Chevy into a subway enclosure. bloody stepping out on the street. you were okay, more worried for me. someone called for an ambulance. then we could hear the sirens. you embraced me. i finally got it. you cared. i couldn’t calm down. #katyamills
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BOOK REVIEWS
HERE ARE THE INITIAL REVIEWS ON GOODREADS.COM FOR MY POETRY BOOK: ‘UP FROM THE DOWNTRODDEN’ – Katya Mills
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#There’s nothing like the feeling of connection with poetry… “you tore into us drunk again one of your moods unpredictable charged”
#overall, this poetry style wasn’t for me. however, the author has a great flow, and even when a poem didn’t do it for me, i could still feel the rhythm of the words. i did really enjoy some of the poems!
#It takes me what can seem like a long while to read a book of poetry that itself is not that many pages with poems that aren’t themselves pages long. I do this because, to me, poetry is a short form of expression that, even in its longer iterations, conveys deep emotions and intimate thoughts in terms sometimes abstract, but always involving a tone/mood. Katya Mills’ collection is ripe with such short poems that convey certain moods.
#i LOVED reading this book. i win it in a giveaway, and stayed up at four in the morning reading through it. im normally not a poetry person, but something about this book really made me connect with it. ill definitely be reading through again, making it like my daily one page at a time book.
#I’m not a big poetry reader but I’m very happy I got to read this gem. It was so refreshing and I really enjoyed reading it
kharkiv
a school teacher two months ago
drawing figures on a board
now a colonel in the Ukrainian army
fights side by side with his son
25 miles from the border
telling any Russian soldier within earshot
you better run
#katyamills
broke not broken
i gave up
cigarrettes
they cut short
so many lives
i gave up
fighting
myself and
the world
behind
some romantic
notion
i gave up bread
to the ducks
in the pond
i fed
the ugly
truths
i gave up
retail therapy
no
that’s a lie
i just ran out
of money
#katyamills
one way to live
expect nothing
work real hard
listen well
keep your word
speak honestly
admit mistakes
honor silence
question the many thoughts
endure the pain
feel your feelings
care 4 those who cannot
care 4 themselves
show kindness
show courage
be you
#katyamills
24 hour variables
an ice cube
to cool a summer sky
the selfless moon faded
to nil. of course none of this really happened like we thought
they asserted with frozen logic
from outer space
#katyamills
cold steel got love
cold steel got love
by Katya Mills
i remember this well. the cold steel in your eyes reflected off the glass of high rise buildings and bottlecaps rolled flat into the street. in opposition to the glossy sky, the kinda deep blue you rarely see anymore in a city. we got together around the time Drake cut his first album which went viral before viral was an expression. the best album. life got crazy for us back then, the whole of us, maybe a core of ten or twenty related intrinsically to a greater constellation, maybe fifty or sixty or more popping off the skin of the larger community. a bunch of anti-establishment mad motherfuckers with nowhere to go just live for today. you won me over quickly, at a time when i was in a lot of pain, my cousin had died, i couldn’t make the funeral, my job was hell and life was like a bad breakup. your life was hell and we both knew nothing of a future until it appeared and it was us. something special had arrived. sometimes Hollywood comes out of nowhere, anywhere, thin air like. now Hollywood is Hollywood and behind the scenes it’s all one giant character assassination. but it’s a damn good show if that’s what it takes to create it. you cannot help but fall in love with it. everything decompensates around it. between us we formed a concept. it was our little secret and there could be no dissent. when you feel this, you know this. magic. real end of the rainbow shit. storybook status. like we already made history, before we made it. cold steel got love like us. cold steel got love.
12.21.21
im not so great in many a formal
setting i like to dress just how i feel
lovely or bedraggled
makes no sense to me to dial it up
otherwise. maybe for joyful masquerade
the show off who expresses toward some aim
i so disdain it makes me tremble
#katyamills
vax realities
they stamped my card
pumped my arm full
of medicine
i zipped up
ten miles home
in the rain
popped some tylenol
advil and said
prayers
#katyamills
venmo fugitives
here was okay
but nothin like nowhere
rummaging through shops
4 clothes @ war with capitalism
venmo fugitives
we tore through the firewalls
they constructed
bleedin us for pennies
on the other side
laughing
#katyamills
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