"cormac" poems
Had to write an essay
I hate AP English
Why do they do this to us high schoolers?
It's so annoying
I had to compare two novels
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
And The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
They are pretty cool
Though The Grapes of Wrath is so arduous!
Though it depicts the time period well
And I liked The Road
Though there a lot of things I wish wouldn't have happened. :(
DANG IT!!!!!!
The compare and contrast are stuck in my head now!!!!!!!
Ugh......
I'm going to be sooooooooooooooo bored!
All cuz I still hate AP English
Doesn't matter how cool the writings are..........
Idk what I should do anymore.........
Oh well,
If you haven't read them
READ THEM!!!!!!!
Then go read 1984. :)
HAHAHA!!!!
Oh wow........ Still hate AP English
But that's just me
Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 9:39 AM UTC
Two girls sit side-by-side eating a can of peaches, one licks her fingertips as the other tips back the can and drinks the syrup. A single stray streak drips down her chin and circles her collar bone to find its way down between her ******* They look at each other; she laughs.
Cormac is looking at the dead roadside trees.
It’s going to be ok, he tells me.
It’s going to be ok.
May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 1:06 AM UTC
When I wake up in the morning after a night of restless sleep
The first thing I think to say to my partner is “I won’t be able to make dinner tonight.”
Dinner, dinner, dinner-- it’s all I care about.
Dinner is the sun that my world revolves around.
The truth is, I had to call in sick today (so turns out I will be able to make dinner).
After a few nights of only a couple hours of sleep, I don’t feel right.
I talk about 8 hours of sleep almost as much as I talk about dinner.
I nonchalantly ask coworkers and friends “how much sleep do you shoot for? How much sleep did you get last night?” (in the same vein-- “what are you going to have for dinner?”)
Just to get IDEAS and to have something to compare myself to.
I’m so impressionable.
I watch an indie film that is beautiful and disturbing and then I can’t sleep.
I’m envious of those people (my partner included) who can fall asleep just like THAT.
He falls asleep while he’s reading.
As soon as he gets in bed, he’s basically asleep.
There’s lots of people like that, I think, but I’m not one of them.
I have to mentally prepare, almost. I have to wind down.
And even though I wanted to watch it, and I chose it, watching an equally beautiful and disturbing indie film is not winding down for me,
(And neither is reading Blood Meridian, or any Cormac McCarthy book, for that matter).
Perhaps it’s the changing seasons, my mom suggests, and that could be.
But I was counting down the days, obsessively checking the weather forecast, WAITING for the days to cool down, and now that they are and it finally feels like autumn, I can’t sleep.
So maybe, afterall, my mind and my body are not always synchronized
And there’s possibly science in the fact that weather could disrupt a person’s circadian rhythm.
But I don’t need to figure it out right this second,
it’s fine.
Oct 7, 2019
Oct 7, 2019 at 2:29 PM UTC