Seven years ago Halo: Reach was coming out. I was 13 and my best friend Had convinced me to get an Xbox 360. Middle school seems too far away To think those days faded away. But in seven years So much can change. Like the places and the people, I’ve moved away from All theContinue reading “Seven Years Ago”
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If I Could Be Any Age – Unadulterated
This page looks like it’s been put through the wringer. Transcript: “If I could be any age I would want to be seven because being young rocks. You can get more toys than grown-ups, like race car tracks, star wars legos, police kit. Anyway I’m just saying that being young rocks!” Oh boy. This one’sContinue reading “If I Could Be Any Age – Unadulterated”
Mentor’s Refuge
Template Meaningless Art made For art’s sake Long live portable 11 And all the things It makes Even the pitiful Toil Its subjects Fake When they Struggle To create Pins to put things up Framed matte So much loose paper Pens and pencils Meaning all what you make
Drinking Fountain
It’s like I’m in Elementary again As I press the front lever And water spouts From the nozzle Making a cold drizzling Noise On the stainless steel basin And going down the drain
Extrapersonal Relations
The popular kid at School’s got all the nukes So better follow the leader Or you’ll get bombed back To the stone age Chase the trendsetter Or do it better You better hope they Aren’t a bully And that they have mercy You’ll be even lucky If he’s remotely friendly He has a superpower toContinue reading “Extrapersonal Relations”
Autumn Poem (Unadulterated)
It reads: “Jump in the raked leaves/ The weather is getting cold/ Big trees turning green”. This is a short poem I think I would have filled in in the first or second grade. Notice the lovely leaf cut-out, and the red coloring all around it in uneven, chunky crayon or colored pencil lines. ClearlyContinue reading “Autumn Poem (Unadulterated)”
Lessons Learned
Marching in the Greek isles With my army It was if just yesterday I was Just learning My dad’s shield A spear I made I used my mother’s dagger To dress fish I watched my brother and Sister walk along the Same path Here in the hell gates Where there was no Benevolence Watched themContinue reading “Lessons Learned”
Sassy
Sassy She was my first real kiss Mouth-to-mouth For realsies “connection” By way of the lips When we were walking During passing period At my middle school We were going to go off To our separate classes And before we did She pecked me Right on the lips Quick Like she’d done it before OrContinue reading “Sassy”
Tidepool Condos
Tidepool Condos When I was in elementary I was in a play about The tidepools. My crush at the time was The star, because of Course she was. I was too nervous about Having to remember any lines So I was a crew member. Or, rather, I was an extra, Off to the side inContinue reading “Tidepool Condos”
Portable Eleven
Portable Eleven A rock held open the door Venting a hot room In the northern Summer air Sanctuary happened here At least Perhaps In an era Before No shackles No chains No manacles Condemning anything to death Nothing doomed And no one wounded A clinic, if you will For things broken To be rebuilt AContinue reading “Portable Eleven”
Consume Reality! 