Like a science experiment
I feel as if that I have to
pour in a vial

grind in a sprig of love
drip in a little beauty

cough in some hair dye.

Stir in a bit of makeup
boil until the moon
shines, "it's alright".

Shred in different cloths
pour in a bit of sass.

How much longer
how many tillings left/
till
I am now

success?

I have a friend
with struggle spelled in her eyes
tears that leak,
drip,
drip-
ing down to
her stomach
is flat-

Bony are her elbows
wobbly knees
and ankles.
She runs day and night,
screams rebound across the sea.

I have a friend called
An. Ne.

She can be in
you
She can be in
me

Dear Edward,

[When]
In Search of Lost Time[,]
[Try} Looking Through the Glass Of Mice and Men

Anne of Green Gables
'Knew Why the Caged Bird Sings

[While] The Great Gatsby
[had]
Great Expectations
[in]
A Tale of Two Cities

[T'was]
Steel-heart[ed]
[but]
Insufferable

Ida B.
[friended]
Jane Eyre,
Emma,
Rebecca,
Matilda,
Heidi,

Robinson Crusoe,
Frankenstein,
Dracula,
Ulysses,
Pippi Longstocking,

Othello,
Hamlet, [and]
Sherlock Holmes-
[and?]
The Catcher in the Rye

Something Wicked This Way Comes[-]
I've Been Told There'd be Cake
[but alas, too late-]
Things Fall Apart
As I Lay Dying

...

Far From the Madding Crowd
Tender is the Night

The Grapes of Wrath
[is found when]
Looking for Alaska
[with]
The Fault in Our Stars[...]
[a.k.a.]
Romeo and Juliet

To **** A Mockingbird
[thy needs a temperature of]
Fahrenheit 451

[One more thing-]
Pride and Prejudice
[is]
Deathless

[Okay, fine, more than one:]
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
[was at]
The Last Book Party

[so were the]
Invisible Monsters
[and]
The Lord of The Flies[.]

[In the]
Dying of the Light[,]
Divergent
[and]
Breathless[,]

[emerged]
The Lightning Thief

...

[Ultimately, in the end]
[strikethrough "And Then"] There Was None


Love,
Stargirl

You carved in my dreams
molded my future

sanded my fortune,
(with naught a mistake here or there!)

painted my talents
decorated my path to walk

pinpointed my identity

I see
myself in
the gentle sheen, where a pale figure stares
and beams
back at me

(cue: "i am confusion")

My name is pup
and when I sleep
inside a sock
its yarn I eat

I open my eyes
the sun is up!
I eat more string
My name is pup

I read during the
rainy nights, watching the
drops of letters,
ink,
that
can't
be
controlled
.