Writing
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Not Just a Screen
You say we are ‘lazy’, ‘soft’, ‘don’t care’, ‘ungrateful’. You don’t see the hours we spend
Studying late, memorizing formulas, writing essays, solving problems,
Trying to be everything you expect us to be. -
wanting, without direction
today's air tastes like berries
and overused metaphors. the shadows run
across golden ground, and i look
at our old stone wall like they would in farmers' days.
a boundary, a gate
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elio
the music of circus//it's deafening//but standing in the front//while people scream and sing//is definitely magical//considering that//a thousand songs about it all//are being sung//by the one//the only//one man circus//and right in front of me//a
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thought from the ill version of me
10:32
i have a cold and i should be asleep.
but i wonder if anyone notices the way that
each stanza in my poems
have to be the exact same number of lines.
10:34
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unfinished, undefined
unfinished:
fractured ideas that i try to piece together into a full thought.
all things i've written about before.
him, school, pain, sleep, sunsets.