Tonight's Poet Corner: Happy New Year
Happy New Year by Belinda Roddie In 2010, I was lost in Limerick, singing Irish songs and rhyme. In 2011, I came out to my friends and family for the first time. In 2012, the world was supposed to end, but that was fake news. 2013 brought me a bookstore job to end potential retail blues. 2014 was when I proposed, and credential classes began. 2015 harkened my first official teaching job at Fusion. Fuck Trump: I got married in 2016, and I also got my credential. And in 2017, I started public school teaching 'cause the salary was essential. In 2018, a yearbook was made, while the second one gave me conniptions. 2019 brought me a new teaching gig and a self-published work of fiction. Throughout it all, there were other things: My very first apartment and sweet cat, as well as a number of new friends and colleagues, which is not at all something to sneeze at. My cousins had kids, and my friends had kids, such bundles of joy and light. And through all the m