Some days you wake up and get on the subway already angry with the world. You are tired from a long week/weekend/day/night so you get on and you are already done with everyone around you. You look at a rabbi sitting down reading the Torah, flanked by a black woman and a hispanic woman and…
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Baby Michelle was Melodramatic
It’s Poetry Tuesday! We are going to go back through all my old notebooks and look at the god-awful poetry I wrote when I was an angsty teen and then you will get present day Michelle’s re-interpretation/headdesk horror-filled embarrassment. Darkness Darkness, It’s pressing in Suffocating Devastating It surrounds me as I fall Down Down to…
Photo Booth Technician
The man next to me looks like the photo booth technician from Amélie and he is watching Mr. Robot on his tablet – season one episode two. He has a bandaid on the middle knuckle of his middle finger on his left hand. He is not wearing the bright red converse of the movie character, but…
#9 – No Vacation Time
This is number nine of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s…
Fool Me Once
She tricked me once into thinking she was leaving at the next stop and made me think I was going to get a seat. So when she got off many stops later I made sure to take her seat out of sheer spite. In the interim stops I looked at her occasionally and thought that…
Adventure Time CNY
Yuuuuup! It was back to Central New York again this past weekend! This time it was not for hotshop fun times, graduations, or camping, it was for my cousin’s bridal shower! I even left behind Brazilian Helicopter Pilot so that I could help my mom handle everything. I got in late Thursday night and had a…
#10 – Age slower
Oh my Goodness! We have reached the TOP TEN of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine)!!!!! Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except…
Baby Michelle was a Melodramatic Romantic
It’s Poetry Tuesday! We are going to go back through all my old notebooks and look at the god-awful poetry I wrote when I was an angsty teen and then you will get present day Michelle’s re-interpretation/headdesk horror-filled embarrassment. Colors Fluttering eyelashes over green eyes Tickle my palm like butterflies in flight Unable to know…
Diagonal Line
He has has a golden patch of hair right at the top of his hair in the middle of a wave of medium to dark brown hair. It is hard to tell if it is from too much time in the sun or fading color. A work ID is clipped to his pants over his…
Dear Subway Rider
Dear Subway Rider, Thank you. I know I do not say this often, but thank you. The other night I donated whole blood for the first time in a while and it hit me harder than I thought it would. Typically I donate platelets which takes 1.5 to 2 hours and does not affect me very…
#11- Nightmares
This is number eleven of the top 30 reasons for why normal people should not date a superhero(ine). Remember supers! This is all in good fun, BUT if you see yourself in these reasons you should consider altering your behavior in order to keep your beloved! [In no particular order, except for number one because that’s…
Baby Michelle was Melodramatic
Welcome to the new Tuesday installment! It’s Poetry Tuesday! We are going to go back through all my old notebooks and look at the god-awful poetry I wrote when I was an angsty teen and then you will get present day Michelle’s re-interpretation/headdesk horror-filled embarrassment. Caress Your voice slides over my skin A silk caress…
Little Gentian 