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L is for Linger

by Abby Zwart | Sep 12, 2019 | 2 comments

So I guess I’m waiting. Statistically, that shoe’s gotta fall sometime.

What you’re really saying is “I’m fairly certain I’m right but I also want you to know how humble I am.

It’s certainly not against me.

Pondering infinity serves little practical purpose in our finite lives, yet the concept thrills and inspires.

When scrawled or scratched on the skin of a beast
Or the earth’s frozen entrails, or the flesh
Of a leaf-maker, then I last longer.

The days don’t vary much, and nobody minds.

I don’t know what home means without you.

I began to evaluate and push back and question. How much was I erased as a student? Where did my own beliefs lie dormant as I absorbed others’ words?

I picked through the trash for the unraveled strands of yarn and carried them outside.

When unchecked, they are bad toddlers, eating bags of gummy bears and staying up all night.