Playing Nice
“I get out my yearbook and look through the pages. Minster High's Nicest Person. Me, all dressed up in costume and stage makeup as Sarah Brown. The smile I plastered on my face day in and day out just in case someone might take a picture. I thought that was me. But I was wrong. Those moments were as deep as the pages they were printed on. Thin, flimsy, and breakable.
I ignore the seven phone calls from Sarah the next day. My room turns into a bomb shelter where I'm protected from the people livi...ng downstairs and across the street. Papers are scattered across my bed and on the ground—all the words I've ever written.
Deep and wide, Shallow and thin, How to define, What I'm feeling within, Truth and lies, Over and begin, A breath away from breaking again.
I stare at my grandma's picture and wish she could talk to me. I miss her at least once a week. I'll hear her rough voice in my head and remember the thick calluses on her fingers and wonder if she would be proud of me.
This is you, Marty, she would say, grabbing my arm and pointing to the smallest freckle she could find.MoreLess
I ignore the seven phone calls from Sarah the next day. My room turns into a bomb shelter where I'm protected from the people livi...ng downstairs and across the street. Papers are scattered across my bed and on the ground—all the words I've ever written.
Deep and wide, Shallow and thin, How to define, What I'm feeling within, Truth and lies, Over and begin, A breath away from breaking again.
I stare at my grandma's picture and wish she could talk to me. I miss her at least once a week. I'll hear her rough voice in my head and remember the thick calluses on her fingers and wonder if she would be proud of me.
This is you, Marty, she would say, grabbing my arm and pointing to the smallest freckle she could find.MoreLess
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