Posts
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The Blue Glass Vase
Two plastic plants, a blue glass vase of dead flowers, and a cactus. The cactus is the only living thing left of the four, and lucky it is, for it gives me hope that I can at least keep that alive.
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What I Learned This Year In School
Even your favorite subject can be your hardest.
Even the "smart ones" will fail.
Even good grades become futile.
Even a textbook won't teach you.
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Daydreams
I want love to feel
like driving into the sunset in a 90's movie
in an old red convertible
classic rock playing us out.
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The Recipe for Friendship
My friends and I eat goldfish and raisins
in the same bowl
and the textures clash, but somehow the salty sweet
really works
my friends and I eat the outsides of carrots
leaving the core
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Gen Z
Funny how history repeats itself.
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Heaven and Earthworms
I have given many a thought to what happens when we die, specifically, what happens to our bodies. You have the option to be classically buried, cremated, donated to science.
Loves
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The Loss of a Songbird
As I step into the wood
I hear nature’s song, oh so good
The song of a small bird,
he fills the world without a word
At the peak of a sweet crescendo,
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New feeling
There’s this new feeling
It’s a very different feeling
But it’s a good feeling
I thought I had this figured out
But like Icarus with the sun
I still had no idea what would be done
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sunshine vs. gold
You told me I was made of pure sunshine
I tried to believe you
I did
I promise
But how can I be sunshine
When she is made of pure gold
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The French of the Trench
Le François de la Tranchée
With my stomach on the ground, I look over the parapet and into the trench. Nobody could be seen.
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Not yours
Women’s bodies are not yours for the taking
Not your land that’s up for sale
Not your home to destroy
Not your food to fill your belly
Take your greed elsewhere please
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A land of the free?
America
Anew
As a child brown from oppression and a desire to be free,
It must learn,
It must remember,
It must never forget,
That freedom for some isn’t freedom,
Freedom for all was promised,