Opportunity

In college, my boyfriend at the time told me my writing wasn’t very good. Little does he know I wasn’t trying to be very good.

Writing featured in Opportunity - Issue 1

DEFINITIVE DEFINITION

When’s the last time you CHUGGED?
When’s the last time you swallowed a mug of hot liquid WHOLE?
When’s the last time you began your day without sugar and cream?
For me, it’s today.

I feel filthy, and raw. This viscous fluid has been strained and boiled just for me.

The ceramic vessel is my god.

1

Googling “how to write poetry”
Because you can never be too sure.

Words just aren’t enough, there’s a process, there’s labor involved.

Googling “how to talk to my dad”
Because you can never be too sure.

Words just aren’t enough, there’s a process, there’s labor involved.

2

Thin ice.

I’m not standing on it, but there’s sure a whole hell of a lot of it between us.

A vision of you foaming at the mouth.

A vision of perspiration.

A vision of a boa constrictor, but he’s wrapped around the bathroom door and my last exhale is all of the privacy I foolishly thought I had agency over.

Your girlfriend is pouring me a glass of sweet and I’m in the Astroworld crowd. We’re not making it out alive.