(This is roughly half the poem. If you want to experience the whole poem, just don’t stop reading it)
when i was five
i went fishing with my family
my dad caught a turtle
my mom caught a snapper
my brother caught a crab
i caught a whale
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Aug 6, 2024
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I have posted a good amount about poetry before so I’ll just leave a recent favorite
“I was barely six years old when I saw the snake,
probably younger than the snake.
It was startled and moved in a flash
to the middle of the road as I trimmed the grass.
To this day I remember how it panicked,
and for the first time I understood the meaning of fate:
life began, life frightened me.
As my sickle knife slowly became rusted,
the snake shed it’s skin, a dry-out shell with the old markings on,
which scared me and sent me fleeing, temporarily losing my dignity.
Now, I already amass enough venom,
but am still afraid. If the snake comes
hissing at me with its long, forked tongue,
I still wouldn’t know what to do.”
Aug 6, 2024
I've posted it on here a million times, and I'll post it a million more.
For me, it embodies a lonely tenderness unlocked by being shown beauty by others, and which ultimately, redeems you to the world and most importantly *yourself*.
I'm trying to leave my evil forest.
Feb 11, 2025
Clipped this from the free weekly Reader 24 years ago. Now it’s the season to share it again.
If it’s too small to read, here’s what it says:
Ernie Pook’s Comeek, by Lynda Barry 2000
This Time of Year
It gets dark after Halloween passes. Something about Earth’s axis and our distance from the sun. I got it right on the test but can’t remember it now.
At the equator things are different. No winter. No turning back clocks. What are they doing on the equator today? How late do they get to stay outside? Here it gets darker and darker.
In my class we are reading about plants, the wonder of them. There is an experiment we are doing. A baby bean plant in the corner of a closed-up box. A tiny pin-hole poked in the opposite side.
Today we got to open it. The bean plant had tried. The bean plant had struggled. It made it halfway across the box before it died. Only stupid idiots cry about a bean plant. They are going to tease me about this forever.
Nov 5, 2024
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