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Counting By Thousands
I've given up counting.
I can't do it anymore.
Statistics
Days
Minuets
People.
I've stopped ticking each one of my finger.
I've stopped listing numbers in my head,
Because at this point its just words
Hundreds, -
The City That Never Sleeps
NY City, we have the best hotdogs,
I swear by them its true,
Have you tried an Annie's pretzel?
You have to get one too.
Our skyscrapers are wonderful
An architectural peak,
The view from 400 stories up -
The Zoomers
how funny how the people in this quarentine time,
are dealing with the issue of having school online.
Jonny always goes to school in full pajama wear
He sits in math with cereal, he hasn't got a care. -
Page Twelve
If you see page twelve,
you'll find an average piece.
Some writting from a person-
nothing to unique.
six paragraphs in total,
spread across the page,
The writer barely thought
a reader would engage.
Written in some hours -
My father's daisy apron
I had no idea.
None.
Who would?
But quarantine made things different.
Bizarre.
And in at least one way - amazing.
Did you know my dad can cook?
I did not.
My sister did not.
I don't think he knew either. -
Teacher VS Zoom
Mrs cooper fin’lly switched to zoom
It took her very long,
I’m guessing that it was because
She couldn’t turn it on.
But now she fin’lly sent the link,
We were surprised she dared.
But when we answered to the call
Loves
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How to drown
I learned to swim
When I was young
I learned
Freestyle
Breastroke
And butterfly
Now here I am
Years later
And all I know
Is how to sink
How to drown
How to go deeper
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Roses
It ended with roses.
I process the funeral in snatches.
Glimpses, even.
I see my family spilling out into the cemetery
Long-lost cousins twice-removed,
Great granduncles,
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Where I’m From
I am from coffee beans,
from bitter brews and cracked porcelain mugs.
I am from the steamed soy eggs,
the scent that clings to mornings
like an old, Chinese dwelling.
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Snapple
There’s a Snapple on the general store roof.
There’s been one there for quite a while. About three years.
Must be nasty by now.
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Childhood
I remember when a phone wasn't important to me
When all I wanted to do was play outside in the grass
Watch as the clouds wisped by in the sky
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My Father's Wooden Bracelet
She’s picking me up
a waterfall rushing down her cheeks
covering me
as my beads absorb
the ocean in her palm
She’s a familiar face