• Emily wrote about the word straw 1 year, 10 months ago

    i leaned back into the straw, expecting it’s tuftiness to catch me with dream-like slowness, cushioning my fall. instead, i just felt it scratch the back of my neck and poke the palms of my hands like needles

  • Emily wrote about the word classic 2 years, 1 month ago

    the classics are so classic liek classical music blowing in my ear like you just did. quintessential seminal classics are the most important things. new is for losers. classic is for the classy. i like how it feels in my tongue when i say it :)

  • Emily wrote about the word however 2 years, 1 month ago

    however. however. however. however you look it, it is still the same. however, you may tilt you head to the right and see revewoh

  • Emily wrote about the word: fiction 2 years, 4 months ago

    fiction creates stories that can teach us much more than the straight out facts of non-fiction… it teaches us about the human spirit, about love, about friendship, power, responsibility, and will. it may not teach us science of earth but it teaches us the science of living as a human

  • Emily wrote about the word: paperclips 2 years, 4 months ago

    6 million paperclips
    6 billion silenced dreams
    6 million paperclips
    6 trillion silenced screams
    6 million paperclips
    6 million lives erased
    6 million paperclips
    6 million hearts to waste

  • Emily wrote about the word: wrong 2 years, 5 months ago

    you said i was wrong, when it was you all along
    you kept singing that cheesy old song
    and hoping i’d catch on before long
    but it was you who are wrong
    so take your broken wishes and tape ‘em as wings
    and fly out my door
    and wrong up someone else

  • Emily wrote about the word: sheets 2 years, 5 months ago

    sheets tan­gling me up in this bed like a trap it entan­gles me in its thread count like a night­mare i’m stuck to these sheets, sweat on these sheets but they are my com­fort and my palace as well as my prison sheets of paper i pour my thoughts on like a sponge to wine [...]

  • Emily became a registered member 2 years, 5 months ago