when we meet, follow this checklist for loving a sad girl
You haven’t yet met me. I am the girl who calls herself a womanbecause the latter sounds more desirable than the former,the one who fell asleep with a ripe peach in her mouthand woke up the next day...
View Articlecan you link me to your poem about ow to talk someone down from committing...
http://writingsforwinter.tumblr.com/post/36040171785/heres-what-you-tell-someone-who-wants-to-commit
View Articlewho are your favorite spoken word poets?
Sierra DeMulder, Andrea Gibson, Rudy Francisco, Buddy Wakefield, Megan Falley, Jeanann Verlee, Derrick Brown, Jon Sands
View Articlememory loss
The Nile River is 4,180 miles long.Yesterday I unwrapped all my skin and laid it out end to end,just to see if my measurements could compare.At your high school commencement address you stood up on the...
View Articledo you have any suggestions of where to submit or where to begin looking to...
Lost Freedom MagazineTeen InkAmerican High School Poets Just Poetry (The National Poetry Quarterly)Scholastic Art & Writing AwardsClaudia Ann Seaman AwardsTin HouseKenyon ReviewAtwood...
View Articleall the psychology textbooks say repression doesn't exist
Two months ago the body of a dead girl was dragged from the bottomof a lake in Canada, her long red hair getting tangled upin the fingers of the fishermen who rescued her. One later informedthe local...
View Articlehello. :) i actually remember you from my old blog, you were a follower of...
Hey! Thank you so much for continuing to read my writings; it means a lot. I hope you’re doing well wherever you are, and have a great day! :)
View ArticleA boy I thought I loved tried to rape me a few years back. I noticed you...
I’m so very, very sorry.I tried to find all the pieces I’ve written about this subject, but I’m sure I’m missing one or two. I hope they will help even just a little...
View Article"OCD kissed him. Seventy-three times."
“OCD kissed him. Seventy-three times.” - 6-Word Story #13
View ArticleI was raped by the same gender. No one knows. I didn't even realise it was...
I only want what’s best for you, but I wish you could let this out of you. I know that there’s someone out there who would listen to your story and love you no matter what. You shouldn’t be ashamed of...
View Articlegroup therapy
When we first meet, I introduce myself as the deer who will alwaysbreak your windshield but will never get run over.You’ll always end up swerving for me, without fail.I am a functioning alcoholic who...
View Articlethe life cycle of a fruit fly
The life cycle of drosophila melanogaster, also known as the common fruit fly,consists of copulation, which lasts 15-20 minutes, then the femaleslay approximately 400 eggs, 5 at a time, into rotting...
View ArticleSo someone apparently made a song out of one of my poems, and I don’t...
So someone apparently made a song out of one of my poems, and I don’t know, that’s kind of beautiful.The song:http://soundcloud.com/yourbackwardspal/end-of-the-year-lyrics-byMy...
View Article"The jellyfish’s feelings were too transparent."
“The jellyfish’s feelings were too transparent.” - 6-Word Story #14
View Articleyour bipolar medication doesn't always work
The first time we are introduced, my entire life story spills intoyour open mouth, and you shake my wrist instead of my hand,simultaneously covering my scars with your fingers while looking medirectly...
View ArticleI swear, I get more out of your poems than at school (span of fruit flies?...
Thank you! I’m still in high school, a senior, so I’m not majoring in anything right now, but I love psychology, sociology, photography, world issues, mental health and gender studies, poetry, creative...
View Articlecancer statistics
My five-year-old cousin David thinks one out of every five people dies.It was hard enough to tell him at three years old that the sky isn’talways blue, but it was even harder to inform himthat...
View ArticleDavid, I swear to God, just ask me out. I’d say yes in a heartbeat.
David, I swear to God, just ask me out. I’d say yes in a heartbeat.
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