The people around me are potheads. Outside, Where harsh lines meet slated ones, Grass worn down by sneaker soles, Cement blocks meant to indulge less-than-legal habits. The smoke leaves their mouths, Lips meet these clouds Which should have been green. […]
Isabel Drouin
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The lists tend to help me Lists for packing Bras, button downs, belts All the chaos becomes order that I am lacking Lists for my day Get fish, get healthy, get poster board from the dollar store Help […]
My feet touch the soft carpet. My left hand rests on the varnished oak railing, matching the trimmings on the walls that confine my steps. Down I go, down the stairs. Three right turns and I am in the basement. […]
a city pushing me to the edge. confined au milieu I break, for the trees the sea shore, contours boundaries over the cliff of society’s expectations – diving into the world I have created in my mind safety. solace. to […]
subsequent to a sustained sleep during which the wind whines and the trees weep, morning has decisively arrived. from beneath darkness, the hollow and the melancholy: Romance stirs, slowly dismissing his frost-bitten blanket. unfolding like a feline, in the sunshine […]
Dear Unfortunate me, Many people will look at you and ask if you are okay. You aren’t, but you have to smile and make your words sound convincing enough to not second guess your thousand-yard stares. People will ask you […]
I keep going in circles, my thoughts are spiralling. Each word flows into the next, and just as I am about to reach a conclusion, it veers back into the loop. My brain has created this spiralling staircase: I can […]
Prostitute of the mind Staring at me expressionless Professionalism at its best Expensive to be in distress This hourly rate isn’t getting us anywhere. Hesitant for more I’ll come back next week Rushed to share I expedite these feelings Years […]
A time of restlessness, anxiety, dreariness. We are adrift amongst ambiguity, searching for a sense of stability. Regardless of how difficult things become or seem to be, what are we to hold on to? For many, motivation hides in the […]
i feel fortunate you are awake, although time is well beyond zero and i know, our sentiments do not align you feel incapable of being beyond emptiness alone, as you sit and you wait inside a hollow house which impersonates […]
None of the deer in the forest are real. At least – none that I’ve seen are. Not-Deer. That’s what we call them, way up here in the boonies. We’re used to a great many things here: hide-behinds and many […]
I was redirected four times before someone finally put me on the phone with the Department of Extraterrestrial Affairs. “Thank you for holding.” I couldn’t tell if the metallic voice was a true AI or someone who just sounded a […]
There’s been a rumor going around about a Ghost Taxi that prowls the alleyways at night. Ghost Taxi was a bit of a misnomer, the name implied that it only ferried ghosts – it did not. The living were its […]
My cat didn’t have a tail – he traded it to a bone witch for a few more lives and a bottomless pan of fresh milk. That’s the story he tells, anyway, on those nights when he comes home bedraggled […]
First choice Is not something I have never been When team captains were selected And they started to pick people, I was never their first choice Nor their second Third and fourth Not even their fifth or six I was […]