This is a eulogy For My Twenties. She was a great girl. She was dearly beloved by bartenders, cab drivers and coat check girls all throughout the clubs. She was a crazy ex-girlfriend and constant drinking companion. She was young and wild and full of squandered potential. Join me today as we say goodbye to … Continue reading For My Thirtieth Birthday
My view of the world is usually that of the top of my feet. It’s the only thing you really see when you’re always looking at the ground. When my head is hung low streets and sidewalks blend into the same long drudging path. At least I can always see when I need new shoes. … Continue reading Windswept Serotonin
These words are made out of scraps of paper. Fragmented ideas stuck to a steering wheel that I am not in control of. There's a chemical imbalance in the driver's seat and I believe she is about to go off roading I exist in a bracket. In the space between Adderall and Lamotrigine. I … Continue reading Desperately Seeking Stability
The end of a relationship is not like breaking apart. It is closing a wound. Not picking at scabs but, pulling at stitches. Stitches from the physical removal of I from us. I am in postoperative care. I still don’t refer to us in past tense. Not without forcing it out. The words … Continue reading Recovery
You live across the street from me. I can hear you screaming from inside my house. "Help! Help me!" I fly out my back door the moment I know it is you who is calling out. I need to get to you. I run out to the laneway I’m suddenly where I am stricken with … Continue reading Crude Subconscious
Sit. Stay. Be loyal. Be faithful. Wait for me. I'm coming over later. (Sit) No, I can't make it tonight. (Stay) I love you so much. (Be loyal) Forever and always. (Be faithful) I’m going out tonight, but tomorrow? (Wait for me) I am tied up to a post that stands outside of your life. When we play … Continue reading Stray Dog
Far, far away in a long lost distant galaxy of another time and dimension... … Continue reading Generation Why?
My friends would say “Hey come out with us tonight!” And I would say, Oh I can’t. I’ve got plans with my boyfriend tonight. But next time! Oh, I can’t. He couldn’t make it last night so he’s coming over tonight. But I’ll be there next time. Or I can’t, he rescheduled again. He says … Continue reading I Can’t
It started with a TV show. An innocent childhood cartoon with mythical creatures that go by the name... Pokémon. Nearly 20 years later it became a national obsession with the release of the ill-fated Pokémon GO. It's been a year since Pokémon GO swept the nation and the world has descended into chaos. What many thought … Continue reading 2017: A Cautionary Tale
No one ever talks about the struggle of having small boobs. All I ever see is “They're always in the way, I swear I can never do anything #bigboobproblems” Please, I wish. I've never been a well endowed woman and that's never been a problem until I'm met with someone who is both chesty and complaining. … Continue reading Small Boob Problems
