FRIDAY FOLLOWS

"I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant."

Colleen Hoover | It Ends With Us

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A Journey, New Home

In front of me are two steps.

Once taken, two more appear.

Will there ever be

more than two

visible at one time?

Behind me is one step.

On a road I already walked.

Will that step

be any different

if I took it now?

I know what I already walked.

I can strain to see what I have yet to traverse.

Is it better to retreat to the known

when I see one step further

in the unexplored?

Forever Writng

quill rose

“you gotta love yourself, baby. if you don’t, who will?”

— sharon g. flake, the skin i’m in

The amazing digital art of Anato Finnstark

Blow negative thoughts every day, to make room for all the beautiful things that life gives you every day.

Teaching in 2020

              Second grade was hard enough

                The seconds turn into hours

                Screens turn to staff as

                Students turn their screens on and off

                Teaching students slipping out of their chairs at home

                Teaches us what we thought we already learned

                Too raw is the view into the houses of inner-city youth

                Exposed to their reality;                my past too.

                When the day is over, we rub our burning eyes

                We say it is easy when we are pioneers

                Fighting our exhaustion and creeping mental instability

                Has us fighting our love for our career.  

quill's secret to writing: old Dance Moms reruns

6.7%

Attributed to diagnosis

Brought often in late spring

Clearly

            Directly

                        Estimated to be

Factors of illness

Greatly cause internal

Health decline

Immune to physical evolution

Join discussion for fewer storms,

Lies we authored,

Mismanaged medicines; mortality rates

Never revealed

Other

Physical symptoms

Questioning

Realities spread

Surrounding mental illness

Timelines weakened by disease

Unknown and invisible,

View seriously only too late

Winds

Expected

Yearning to blow

0 likelihood of simple and total recovery

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