Issue 6 cover

Again

by Molly Horan

Issue 6 :: Summer 2010 (poetry)

Maybe if I'd been younger
Hadn't let my bangs grow out
Hadn't bought the lipstick
Too dark to be a Kool-Aid stain,
It wouldn't sound so horrible:
I didn't cry
I wasn't scared
I ran vocab words through my head
Bowed for a moment of silence

...

Purchase the issue to read more of this piece and others

 
Or buy the rest of just this piece for $0.50!



"Again" is roughly 195 words.

Molly Horan is currently an MFA candidate at the New School University. Her YouTube channel, youtube.com/…, features author interviews and musings about footy pajamas. She also blogs at roomforthecheeseslices.blogspot.com about cute tsar names, blessed Kateritykawitha, Dr. Seuss, and other worthy subjects.