Take 1 egg to begin 3 cups of sugar to set you off maybe even 4 (if you're lucky) A dash of bitter herbs as you scrape your knees on the playground for the first time Stir it up with a yardstick And spice with salt and cilantro and habanero to taste Move on with … Continue reading How to Grow Up by Alexander LePine
Month: January 2020
Lab or Whatever You Call It by Morgan Riccobene
Dissect me. Tear out my insides, call it adapting evolving, part of your biology I squirm, pinned by your processes. Call it science, and I- will call it as it is, Murder me. Keep me captive, I leap free while you all leap to conclusions, like frenzied flies to ponds of sugar water placebo pills. … Continue reading Lab or Whatever You Call It by Morgan Riccobene
Cataclysm by Remy Desai-Patel
From "Drift" by William Preston I remember the day it really started. The city as empty as a stage sprawled before us. One o'clock drifted through, the snow outside stacked on top of cars. I stepped outside and slipped back inside and said, look at this. We stepped outside as a silent symphony of reds … Continue reading Cataclysm by Remy Desai-Patel
