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Truth Be Told

I pushed open the heavy school doors and bolted down the steps, rushing past wandering students. My heart felt like it was about to beat right out of my chest. The stress weighed on me like a sack of rocks. I struggled underneath it, ready to snap in half like a twig. My legs ran […]

Abstract Vegetable

The Plummet

As he backs off the ledge his heart skips a beat. Wind began to fly past him. The gigantic structure he saw before him creeps past, slowly at first, but then in ever increasing speeds. Suspended, he watched the world move as he pulls it toward him. In the moments before death, time slows to […]

Clasped

Hands Together & The Test

Hands Together Chubby sausage fingers Always waving, always grasping Flailing as you come into this world. Each little digit bending frantically As if to catch the pesky dust mites vexing you Dancing in front of your face, always just out of reach. I laugh. Reaching down to grab your hands Clasping them tightly in mine […]

Paris

In Paris, my watch stopped. When I left JFK, my watch made me early to the airport and late to the gates, the signature uniform ticking along but now disabled, limping without a crutch, matching itself into my heartbeat as the finals approached, the tick…tick…tick turning into a lively thumpthump, thumpthump, that rushing in my […]

Basketball BBALL

There is a sport called Basketball Basketball AKA BBALL When I play BBALL I break ankles In BBALL I shoot the 3s From top of the key or the sides All my shots go straight in When I shoot all you hear SWOOSH! My cross over is so real its been banned As I walk […]

Roam-Land Security

It was a Thursday, and Mary was following her usual routine of turning on the power strips. She was in the kitchen, wedged underneath the table trying to reach the button labeled “kitchen appliances,” when from outside there erupted a chorus of low-pitched mooing. Startled, Mary lurched upward and banged her head against the top […]