ArchiveJanuary 2013

The Bridge

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I’ve thought about being someone else for the longest time. Wash out the blonde, brunette, waterdown the hazel, even stir in some testosterone. How much have I sacrificed being who I am, when I could have been someone else? I like me. But I bore myself. I cross the same bridge, with matches in my pocket; I come across the same Dead End, the street name never comes to mind. I’ve given...

Between the Lines

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Friends suck the clear fuel from balloons, in fear that they’ll never be funny. Hearts look better on paper – paper: lined, crumpled, ripped. Hearts – guarded by porcelain gates we call a ribcage – are never expected to break. Paper hearts – products in a teenage girl’s assembly line of doodles – are expected and prepared to be torn, thrown away...

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