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wonderland
my name is alice, and yes, i screamed when i fell.
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calm in the midst of the storm
i mean it's not calm but the first five minutes
of chorus when everyone is cascading in
through the too-small doorway are my favorite & we,
always the first to sit down,
cluster & converse about
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There was an ice raid in the area
and it was the tensest last period class I've ever been in. Well, for me, at least,
and maybe only for me - when the announcement came on to secure
the school, no going outside, continue as normal,
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musings of an unrefined philosopher
I am a poet. I take the words and I turn them on their heads until the juice runs out. It is red and sweet, like strawberries. I sit cross-legged on lilypads, watching meaning watercolor itself onto the pond. I rust like clockwork in the rain.
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Loves
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Feel
When I met a girl on Omegle who read me like three incoherent, handwritten, multi-page love poems
I think that's what it means to feel something
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Spring's Post-Script
I love post-script, thought Benvolio as he sat curled in his favorite armchair. His favorite music was humming through his airpods into his ears, and as he watched raindrops gather and drip down the windowpane, he fel
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There Is No War In Ba Sing Se
Every day when I walk home from school
I see a woman with her young son
Asking for money by the road.I stick my hands in my pocket and
Turn my head away.
There is nothing I can do because
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Holding Hands
My mom doesn’t hold my hand on the airplane anymore.
Not during taxi, takeoff, turbulence or touchdown.
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I spent $30 on ramen that gave me food poisoning
The way that people talk and write about college made me think I knew what I was in for. But it’s a Wednesday night in April, and I’ve finished all of my homework for the day, so I’m in a restaurant alone.
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the kind of teenager i'm not
i watch as all of my old friends
grow up to be everything i never wanted,
everything i told myself i would never turn into.
As if it were wrong,
as if it were some curse.
And now i want everything they have,