Tagged: rhyme
Pillow talk
Schooling is not the same as education education - it is sacred. Here it is commodified - twisted, manipulated, thrown away with every spit bubble lazily popping at your mouth, every glazed over look you give your teacher Continue reading
Life is a real nailbiter
I don’t know why I’m not learning
that when your conscience is hurting
you can just go about turning
your cuticles into victims.
When your life is going off the rails
you take it out on your nails
the sad state that your violence assails
red, raw, and bitten.
The to-do list of an optimist
In the midst of all there is to feel,
are you going to let sorrow dominate?
There are dishes to wash, molars to floss,
people to hug, and movies to pause.
You’ve got emails to send, letters to write,
Catherine Zhang 