Four Poems
Sara McGrath
POEM ABOUT MY VIBE
my look tonight is Asking For It
a tight vibe is U Can't Have This
I only wanna be in VIP lines & get compliments
god grant me the grace to maintain my
POEM ABOUT MY VIBE
my look tonight is Asking For It
a tight vibe is U Can't Have This
I only wanna be in VIP lines & get compliments
god grant me the grace to maintain my
Edith stood close by in case they needed her, but stared out the doorway at the pickup truck.
Two teenagers finish the last apple in the house and then wait for something to say.
"I'm thirsty now," one says.
The other unseals a new milk carton from the fridge.
They both
it was a sort of boring day so me, kate, and david were just drinking and watching daytime television at my mom's house
A little nervous after my 70,000th cup of coffee this lifetime
I was wary of forty-three year olds
(statistically, murderers are on average 7.5 years older than their victims)
though
It was probably 3:3o in the morning and I was wide-awake because of the acid. I was anxious to do something but nothing in particular. I was jittery, lively.
That’s / when the purple doors open into steamy / bathtub of surprise. That’s when there’s / an impossibly-deep Prince breath & then—
There is nothing romantic about being young and dark and confused. Pain is real. It's funny on Twitter but it sucks irl.
Oliver Reed isn’t wasting any time. He has work to do, and he’ll be god-damned if he’s going to let anybody get in his way. The work, of course, is drinking, and in the Christmas scene from 1975’s
men on trains
A man on the L train says to his friend, "Nothing is more attractive than a woman who admits she's wrong about something." A man on the G train says to his date, "Most