overheard in dorm

In my dorm room editing.

Next door is a girl with an annoying laugh. She laughs frequently, in short shrieks and hahas suggesting she is flushed, perhaps a little tipsy, perhaps just trying to appear fun in the eyes of the male visitor? It's only Sunday night...

The girl with the annoying laugh and her male friend enter the hallway.

The man comments loudly about a guy who dared another guy to swallow a goldifish. He says: "The guy says 'now what do I do?' and so he says 'spit it back up!'. And he did."

And the girl laughs with her annoying laugh, and expresses humble disbelief to her male storytelling hero.

She'd swallow a goldfish if she thought he'd be impressed, after all.

uneasy

Some of the biggest academic successes I have are also some of my biggest regrets.

school time again

One sister in her university-province; the other en route. A bus; a boat.

evening tripping

Sometimes I forget I'm clumsy.

I was doing pretty good, then I nearly fell on a patch of ice in front of a fast food place. The next night I tripped on the way up the stairs inside the movie theater. Ah well.

various ocracies

We're a feigned meritocracy and a failed democracy. So much pretense! But --
Feigned or Fiend? 'Demo' or demon?

Tread carefully, please, and form your letters with care.

unflavourful

So, "unflavourful" isn't a word. Regardless, I spelled it the Canadian way. Points for that?

unfinished (to submit to sociology class)

The weak urge
of a shattered man:
A desire to rewrite his song.
Their tears wiped with dollars bills
while they feed him stale seeds like a caged fox.
Sing it again, and make us feel. Such a mind!
But the song is unfantastical; lyrics are carved along his spine.
Sweat beads his back like crystals.

A dream --
No purple blood delirious
will smear leisure
on a sad sky.
"Let us out from our prison!"
they cry
in moon white symphony.