Bodies float alive on the Dead Sea. The Atlantic is an opaque ocean of dead bodies, and I’m gasping for breaths in between. Twenty three, the therapist diagnosed me. And there’s pills for that, he said. So I became an island nestled between salt and a hard place. Western medicine dehydrates my faith in humanity. …
A Guilty Pleasure
Girls who pull off camo Bummin' cigs off Cheeto Barnes & Noble Seth Cohen Eating pasta with my fingers Not wearing shoes in the summer Winning a car merge Running away: The soles of my feet are callused So my heart doesn’t have to be. As a rule: Before I drown in …
You are a customer lying face down on the floor during a bank robbery. Describe the robbery from this vantage point.
Now is probably a bad time to ponder the carpet selection, but honestly I’ve been lying down on this thing for some time now, and though I’ve personally never taken the time to really observe this carpet, (I don’t come in here that much. Just my luck, right?) someone did obviously take the time to …
Rewrite your college application essay with today’s point of view answering the question, “Is there anything else we should know?”
I misinterpreted most things by choice at seventeen; I couldn’t define good riddance; I chose not to know the difference between stay and go, but played the victim like a champion. You should know we’re fine, and you should know things got worse. In my college essay I wrote about accepting loneliness, leaving out what …
I Was Not Sorry
Hey kid - it's me. Just called to see if you’re around tonight. I could use a friend tonight. It’s after Labor Day, and I'd been thinking the summer crowd leaving would make breathing easy, but aside from the drowning, I don’t think I’m sleeping and - Hey kid - you there? I’m back now. …
She Was Crazy That Way
It was 2014, after dinner but before Thanksgiving when I sawed off the head of a deer. We were in the back shed surrounded by the thick scent of fresh death, and I was just a guest, an outsider when it comes to survival. “This should get us through winter,” the father said to his …
Where Do You Go To Escape
Oh wondrous outlaw waving at bandwagons as they pass, Shackled not by this century's elusive systems, Nor blinded by false definitions of success, Tell me: Where am I to go but venture into the valleys Of creative souls to pick at the well-edited scraps Of former gold mines untapped? I am a modern day Mary …
Write a love letter to a person you dislike
Nobody and Everybody, I don’t think I ever got the chance to tell you this, but I really like how trashy you are. It’s adorable how you think what you wear is appropriate. There’s just no question you’re from Jersey, and I admire those who keep the stereotypes strong. #JerseyStrong And thanks for always thinking …
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Write a poem about a tomato
I found a tomato In a salad On the 4th of July, And what a wonder that is For no other reason than Tomatoes make me cry. Normally I’d suppress my tears, Make like our forefathers And spit on my fears, But for tomatoes I make an exception. They're simply far too evil For …
Everyone has a special talent. What’s your special skill?
I can write my name. I can name all the countries of South America in under 10 seconds. I can forget what I’m about to say as I’m about to say it and sometimes I wonder what's stronger - head or the heart. I can whistle. I can read up to three pages of a …
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