But you took Hitler, anyway. You might as well walk. Fortify responsibility. You need positivity. What’s more positive than pale blue skies and white puffy clouds, the smell of coffee wafting from the coffee shop around the corner with its smiling yellow walls? Out in the morning, you absorb coffee, pot, even pizza, mixtures mingling. Even the march of students to campus offers a certain cheer, even though among these seas of sociability. Maybe you can steal a snatch of laughter, absorb a dirty joke about sex, even a broad smile which they still wear, even though the students are certainly old enough to be cynical.
Walk slow. Walk very slow. Drag each step, absorb each clickety-clack of feet on pavement. Absorb the way the pale blue and white cast fresh shadows on the streets and rooftops. Take comfort in the last patches of snow. Watch the world move and remember what it means to feel ambition. Love. The day is long. By Yash Seyedbagheri. Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA Be A Good Episcopalian’, and ‘Tales From A Communion Line’, have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work has been published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.
Insertico by Rosa Gravino
Pieces by Rosa Gravino. She was born, lives and works in Cañada de Gómez, Argentina. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts, National University of Rosario Visual artist whose work consists mainly of Objects, Artist’s Books and Visual Poetry. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in her country and abroad. Her works are part of important public and private collections and her Visual Poems have been published in art magazines, books and digital media.
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