"Silver-Lined Heart"
Taylor Mali

I’m for reckless abandon
and spontaneous celebrations of nothing at all,
like the twin flutes I kept in the trunk of my car
in a box labeled Emergency Champagne Glasses!

Raise an unexpected glass to long, cold winters
and sweet hot summers and the beautiful confusion of the times in between.
To the unexpected drenching rain ( Read more... )

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Your result for The Attachment Style Test ...
The Cuddleslut

36% Anxiety Over Abandonment and 26% Avoidance Of Intimacy


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I leave for college in 24 days. How odd.

“Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem”
Bob Hicok

My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers
of my palms tell me so.
Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish
at the same time. I think

praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think
staying up and waiting
for paintings to sigh is science. In ( Read more... )

From ‘Boy Detective Fails’
"Wait a moment, what's happening here?" Melinda asks.
"Billy solved a mystery. A great one."
"Wait a minute, what mystery?"
"The one about where you go when you die - ha ha. Go on and tell her what the answer is, Billy."
"Excuse me?"
"Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy."
Billy smiles. "You ( Read more... )

On Turning Ten”
Billy Collins

The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I'm coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache
or the headaches I get from reading in bad light--
a kind of measles of the spirit,
a mumps of the psyche,
a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.

You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is because you ( Read more... )

Its official.

I'm positively stoked.

Summer come here now, please.

I got into Drew University too! :D

edit: And Assumption!

T 1. Do you call anyone babe?
often

2. Who's car were you last in?
mis padres'

3. When is the next time you will kiss someone?
not soon enough.

4. What color shirt are you wearing?
gray

5. What kind of flower do you like?
calla lilies. and daisies annnd whatever kind lyd got me. theyre pretty.

9. Last thing you ate?
chocolate ( Read more... )