a poem not written by me

this was published last year and i really read it yesterday and i really, really loved it. really (okay, i promise to stop).
NEWS ABOUT MIDDLE-AGEby Mary Sagala Verleur
Tomorrow, I may die, never having known I was middle-aged at 20Completely cheated out of my mid-life crisis.
Chubby Staley was middle-aged at 8 years old whenHe threw a [...]

art again

i’ve been going through last year’s publication and i’m irritated. everything is good except for the short stories. they are mediocre. and they are all about the same thing: sex. the editor in chief writes, “the truth makes you uncomfortable.” and “the truth sets you free.” as a sort of justification for the controversial pieces [...]

good and bad art

i was in a room with a woman who loves herself and another girl who had long, long, fake fingernails and was listening to them talk. the woman who loved herself had once written a story about a series of burials, one being a jewish burial and was in a creative writing class where someone [...]

belle and boo

i’m sure many of you have discovered etsy, a website full of beautiful handmade everythings. i could spend hours on there, looking around. my favorite is a seller named belle and boo. she’s in london and this is why i love her:she draws these children in an almost beatrix potter way, full of the woods [...]