we didn't evolve to look at ourselves

When I look at mirrors, they don't break, but they bend and warp and fold in on themselves.

wph

VT

16 years old

More by wph

  • Space Dream

    I had this dream the other night that some object in outer space had been reflecting radiation onto certain people: just dissolving them painlessly into light.

     

  • Poetry

    By wph

    The longer I wait.

    No more promises to go to bed earlier

    No more making up meaning for the mess on the floor,

    No more pages all across my desk.

    No more of the big clothes to hide what I don't have. 

  • Poetry

    By wph

    fall in

    past the burning day,

    at bedtime when I shrug off sleep,

    When I've got school the next morning, and I shouldn't be here,