maelynslavik

maelynslavik

VT

14 years old

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  • Rules for being normal

    1. 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.
  • 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,

  • 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!”

     

  • 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

  • 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,

  • 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.