April 2012
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On a Valentine’s Day in middle school,
they were selling $1 carnations.
Between classes, I found one, the stem carelessly
broken off, lying on the floor, the colored petals
only slightly damaged.
I picked it up before it could be trampled on.
Two hours later, the First to ever matter
quickly begged to buy it off my hands
before scampering off to class.
It did matter that half of the...
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“Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in...”
– Thomas Paine, “Age of Reason”
March 2012
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“Pedro Martinez vs. Roger Clemens on a Saturday marks a promotion to reality of...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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On a Valentine’s Day in middle school,
they were selling $1 carnations.
Between classes, I found one, the stem carelessly
broken off, lying on the floor, the colored petals
only slightly damaged.
I picked it up before it could be trampled on.
Two hours later later, the First to ever matter
quickly begged to buy it off my hands
before scampering off to class.
It did not matter that...
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I sat in my room, on my bed, with her notebook in my hands. The little heater on the floor next to me was whirring in a desperate attempt to warm the chill in the air. Upstairs, I could hear the laughter of my family celebrating nothing in particular. I opened the cover—the slight rustle of pages as they met the air warmed me in a way that the heater by my feet could not. My fingers skimmed...
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“He loves guns and claims the glocks are blazin/ I’ll expose his heart without...”
– Carter Deems (my new favorite battle rapper. His obscure nerd references are amazing)
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can we just take a moment to appreciate this GIF
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Have you heard to yell “Fire” instead of
“Help” when you’re in trouble?
Help , apparently, has become too overused
for it to mean anything.
But for me, help
is that word that’s forever
on the edge of my questions
but always held back,
as if it were “I love you” instead.
I know it’s not.
There is no rest with everyone arguing around...
I AM GOING TO A COSTUME PARTY DRESSED AS DARWIN…and then telling whoever gets it to come with me to Madagascar.
WHAT AM I REFERENCING? (Hint: it’s not Doctor Who)
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Oh, the irony
Whenever I call home from my iPhone, it shows as calling “Dad.” It’s because I basically have all of my mom’s contacts in here, and I know that. Just slightly depressing
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Short story
I have 10 minutes before the sun set. I pound the basketball into the broken pavement of my driveway. I knew the ringing of each rhythmic slap of the ball meeting the ground spread through the block but I had the music playing through my headphones too loudly to hear it. I throw the ball to the hoop, but it misses by too much and I have to chase it across the street. Coming back, dribbling the...
I had the strangest dream involving David Tennant, Sport Relief and my creative writing class
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She Will Never Show
Waiting in the dark
for the face that will never come.
How long will you wait
before admitting defeat?
How long will you wait
before allowing your heart to break?
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You said to me one day,
“The lights in your eyes are brighter
than Venus during sunset.”
I didn’t tell you then
but that cheesy line
was one of the best I’be ever heard.
I don’t think you knew, then,
that the way to my heart
is to have nerdy lines like that
fed to me.
Let’s face it,
I’m so nerdy I make Dr. Sheldon Cooper
look cool.
Okay,...
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Gravity
There is no despair without darkness,
a pit to try to escape
but the gravity of something you’ve always denied
is too strong to resist;
Life will swallow you whole
before you know what’s happened.
Lost control, lost any chance of command.
Two generations haven’t been able to withstand it-
One, after one, tumbling unseen
because those who cared covered the pit;
why...
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I am such a weird person.
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Buying Chinese Food
Her quiet sadness screams to me,
as she works in the metal kitchen
she has become trapped in.
I see her inability to smile
and want to helper her,
but she has already taken my order;
there is nothing else to say.
When she hands me my food
I know she’ll have to say something then.
As we wait for my food to fry,
I watch someone yell at her,
words ricocheting off the metal walls...
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“Oh ho ho… brilliant! It’s you! You’re my favorite, you are. You are the best....”
– The Tenth Doctor, The Girl in the Fireplace (via searching-for-wonderland)
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Today, an old teacher of mine told me, “You reminded me of why I like poetry,” (of my poem Jupiter). What. The. Fuck. Two and a half weeks after the fact and I’m STILL getting these insanely (I think hyperbolic) compliments. And now I’m beginning to realize that if I keep saying “I’m not that good” I’m just going to sound like an asshole who no one...
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What Does Her's Look Like?
The silver ring sits on his finger,
its shine like a quarter moon
on a clear September night.
He does nothing to draw attention to it,
but the eye is mesmerized by its simplicity
and I can’t help but wonder
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