Summer ends in the heady days of early August in the public school sense I still wallow not yet mature enough, not yet rich enough to make sure my own August days are languid and free standing beside myself and wondering what to do until September arrives a seasonal condition that has become antiquated but still…

She always knew she would, until she felt electrified. Her skills, her debut — a coming-of-age of the missed (and inevitably chaotic) night before. This powerful bond became one organism. An intense pressure to last forever.

delicious — the power of beauty trust, experience, thrive, elevate — be — what makes you rise? what’s your story? give us the killer edge to slay her playbook twists to reinvent her favorite experience

1. Unkind silence it’s all I get mourning over a loss, crying over something I’ve never found. You take it upon yourselves to ignore me or to throw treasures my way to keep my melancholy at bay. Ignorance is bliss if you know when to use it. 2. Patterns float…

There were ripples and rifts of time I could see in the corners of my eyes. Night had descended hours ago, and I couldn’t shake off whatever poison I had treated myself to earlier, making my vision bleary and the rest of the cells in my body go into autopilot…

War child — a painted flower on each cheek a symbol that is all too opulent, all too knowing for this generation to understand the grounds for dismissal are all in order live to live or live to die while we are thousands of miles from the front lines we still have all of our battle…

As an echo bounces back My own voice drives into my ears I’m talking into an empty room — I know you’re hiding somewhere Figment or flesh, this message Must get through Telepathy is a source, a comfort My mind can meld with yours Whether it’s true is left to…

Wrapped — grays and mists of color in the infancy of morning waiting for the chill to burn off in the rising of the sun this is our respite before we choose to bloom a place where opportunity is undiscovered where we know our courage and fragility and the world relents to your virtue and I…

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