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i am disguisingmy maniaas New Year’s resolutions PLEASE HOLD ME

lemon

isn’t there always something that lures you back? the bitterness of a lemon rests on the tongue.

flowerbed

one day there will be a flowerbedand it will be mineand i will be someoneunrecognizable.

if

i will ring the doorbell and come straight in when you come home.

do i post everything i write?

short answer: no i don’t, but it’s for more reasons than you think. i hate a lot of what i write. there’s a huge portion of my work that i scrap entirely. publications often will not accept work that has been posted on social media. so, i essentially have a document of poems that have…

untitled

i catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror but it’s no one i recognize.

untitled – poem

how can i breathe when you squeeze my lungs and tell me it’s fine. how can i live traumatized by what didn’t hurt me.

5 tips for new poets!

(from a 19 year old who’s been published over 30 times) write as often as you can. it doesn’t matter if it’s good, you can always edit it later. submit as often as you can. prestige of a magazine doesn’t matter. you need eyes on your work. don’t get discouraged by rejections. read your work.…

my writing process

how i write poems:step one: stare at a wall for three hours.step two: despairstep three: write literally anything.step four: hate it.step five: post my trauma on the internet for all to see.step six: repeat! this is absolutely infallible. i do it every time!

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