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Hello dear bipeds, Welcome to the April selection of creative writing. I offer these poems and stories as refuge from your studies. Seriously, procrastinate. These are way more interesting, anyway. Your Creative Writing Editor, LAURY CHARLAND
Let’s Just Talk ADRIAN DARWENT Contributor Okay. I’m listening Two hearts beating An autumn flutter Wings powdered together Sticky like your gloves At the end of a long day Picking flowers For a paycheck Okay. I’m listening Two gloves hit the tin Sides of a garbage can And slap me in the face Stinging like your touch At the end of your parade Picking someone else up Outside my apartment Okay. I’m listening. To an excuse you’ve made So easy to love Just shut up and Listen, okay? We need to talk I need you to listen Are you listening? I’m listening, okay? Then look at me when my eyes roll back into your head and when my lungs beat at your chest to seize in the open wind and when my embalmed cheeks siphon air from your wound and when my throat has never worked so hard to breathe and when you kiss me after you’ve buried me I’m listening.
