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Rules for being normal
- Smile. Teachers like kids who smile, especially during classes when mind-numbingly boring concepts itch their way into your brain and eat away the inside. Yes, you don't like school. No, you can't say that. Smile, smile, smile.
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Ice cream
Sickly sweet,
Your words touch my prefrontal cortex
Like soft burning snow.
Your touch tastes sweeter
Than ice cream
On a humid sun-streaked day.
You,
Frost-borne by the north wind,
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Take Me Away
Author Bio: I wrote "Take Me Away," when I felt swamped with a growing list of things to do. It made me miss the days, in the pandemic when I’d run around the backyard, screaming “I’m bored!”
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Candy Stars
I hold my secrets in the shape of stars,
constellation-clustered candy like flaming balls of gas.
Sometimes they have five points.
Sometimes six.
Always, they burn
in that space inside your head
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The LGBTQ+ Center
I went to the LGBTQ+ youth center for the first time.
For a year
I stared at the website,
wanting nothing more than to go.
When I finally went, on a Wednesday,
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Parenting Lessons
always carry your keys between your middle and ring finger
never have your wallet visible
don't listen to music in public
everyone's a stranger
you're our child; don't scare us.