Life Strings

Morgan Hannah
Life & Style Editor

 

No one’s touch feels quite like yours
Wearing pearls on my 21st

you had fun with them. oh, how come
tell me to and I’m on all fours

It’s sickeningly sweet

Your tongue between my teeth
fingerprints, scratch, sweat everywhere
this love

Petrichor
rain falls

I’m grounded
pause

Breathe

Couldn't tell you what I want, you're doing it.

if I call you to drive out to see me

cold and dark, 1 degree

would you savor it? would I taste your spit?
do you burn for me? is your skin on fire?

I could cool you down

Petrichor

rain falls

I’m grounded

pause

Petrichor

rain falls

I’m grounded

pause, keep going

Lune

overtop concrete
too soon a leave
floating away
ground me, stay

Petrichor
rain falls

I’m grounded
pause

Sonam Kaloti
Arts Editor

 

only the pretty pink snatched noses
are allowed to use their voices
to sing about love and lust and being tragic

I could tell you a thing or two about being rich
but you'd have to agree to switch

cause you will never understand
until it comes and takes your hand

hard grip—

down!

dragged to the ground
everything's moving

and your ears are ringing

are those tears that youre crying?
why are you lying?

well, I know that you're trying—
down!

dragged to the ground
everything's moving

and your ears are ringing

are those tears that youre crying?
do you feel like you're dying?
well, I know that you're trying
but it’s just not enough!

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Illustration by Sonam Kaloti