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The "bejeweled" stapler
This was for a prompt where you choose an object and write about it - my object was a mini stapler covered with plastic gems.
The stapler sat on the pedestal-like black block
small, but still bound by gravity
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So much bigger than us
When I visited my cousin in Washington DC
it was
so
loud
so
many
people
everywhere I went
people
people
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One sentence is all it takes
Sorry, try again.
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Wishing upon a satellite
Darkness
swallowing up the sunset
streaks of gold and orange and pink fading to a dark navy blue
then, finally
once the sky has been painted over with a seemingly endless coat of black
the stars come out
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O Canada
O Canada
I am so sorry for what is going on
I apologize for a lot of people's actions
to specify, their stupid actions
O Canada
Vermont sends its condolences
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Fly away, little bird
You were a little bird once
a chick
fluffy and begging for food
now you're all grown up
now you're learning to feed yourself
now your stretching your wings
practicing your landings and takeoffs
Loves
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Quiet isn’t consent
i learned
life liberty
the pursuit of happiness
before i learned
how often a promise
can hesitate
no one mentioned
how often you’d have to prove -
Consider the following
When I was in seventh grade, my teacher put on our desks a pop quiz, and question one was hard, but question five was harder (was the colonization of America inevitable?) and I stared at that question because I couldn't stop thinking about my home
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The Women
The two of them sit on the porch
basking in the sunlight
letting their toes explore the first
frost-bitten mud of spring
Talking about life and death and sex
and little Mika's school play
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maybe next year I'll remember
December already?
That's what everyone else says.
People ask us at the end
of every year
to reflect on these last twelve months
that have changed us.
And I honestly never know
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Is That What You're Wearing?
“Is that what you’re wearing”
She says
Not as a question
But a judgment
A cold declaration
That I’m doing something wrong
