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Tonight's Poet Corner: Exiting Atmosphere

Exiting Atmosphere by Belinda Roddie I flatten these streets in my black men's jacket, my maroon men's shirt, my black women's slacks and my brown women's shoes. I feel like I can take over the world and bounce it on a string like an overpopulated, CO2-choked yo-yo, yanking it off its axis and letting it drop along the cosmos into the freezing chaos of a second existence. When I remove my shades, I can feel the sweat crystallize on the bridge of my nose. I let the beads descend to my chin. I am melting in the bay area summer heat, and I am merging into a pseudo-metropolitan galaxy where the noise is all white and garbled and unable to communicate anything to anyone.

Today's OneWord: Study

Study, study, study That was the solitary word of advice my parents gave me when my grades still remained mediocre. Here's the thing, though: I was  studying. When I wasn't out running errands or working my part-time job at Mister Chu's doughnut shop, I was sacrificing my social life, sports, and extracurriculars to stare at a biology textbook and wonder just what the fuck it was trying to tell me. The results were in: I was not the academic type, and no amount of note-taking or reviewing was going to change that reality.