Aerie InternationaL - Missoula County Public Schools

allison lazarus
terrace park, ohio, usa
ImItAtIng KerouAC In the SummertIme
1. there are a lot of halves of me floating around as specters where would they go
would they live in gardens and adorn themselves for parades?
i think that they would like what i do they would eat spaghetti
and throw pebbles and go to amusement parks
but then they would go back home and throw up because specters and ghosts
can’t eat and they can’t keep pretending that they’re more than half of anyone
2. i think like salt when you pour it into the shaker and it kind of tumbles over
itself in a race to fill the corners—the desired spots.
i remember when we went on vacation with dad to Michigan and we climbed on
the world’s biggest sand dune i don’t remember the name now but
it was beautiful and there anytime you stepped the sand rushed to fill your
abandoned footsteps and i wondered why
it didn’t just keep going the whole dune with the same
eagerness and make
a whole new mountain right where you had stepped because it
was so excited its piling just disrupting the laws of gravity and
physics because it wanted to touch you even if indirectly for just a second
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