Manipulate You

Hard To Get

You should date a girl who reads.

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

Before

A Wish

Like A Prayer

Trick or Treat? (Part I)

Once upon a time, I knew a boy who thought every night was Halloween, and yet, had never been given or even tasted a treat.

One night near midnight, he knocked on my door, “Trick or Trick?”
I laughed, “How about a treat?”
Nervously, he looked at my treats, then closed his eyes. He had never been offered a treat. He didn’t understand—he thought I was tricking him. 

Fires For The Cold

“For poems are not words,
after all,
but fires for the cold,
ropes let down to the lost,
something as necessary
as bread
in the pockets of the hungry.”
— Mary Oliver

I Hold

If I could have had
him
I could have let

Ghost

In your memory
I hide.

In my heart
you lie.