The Poetry Marathon

Just waiting to

Have air return to my lungs

As a continously exhale.

Long days in the rain

Make my eyes red

My hair puffy

My nose stuffy

Long days in the rain

Wakes me as the rain pelts my air conditioner

Makes me sleepy.

When your day is weird

Eat a slice of pie,

He said

But I don’t have any pie,

I said

Take look at a book,

He said

But all words make me sleepy,

I said

Do something worth doing,

He said

But doing something isn’t something,

I said

Then what, he asked, do you do on a weird day?

I do, I said, something weird.

Newest way to get lost

1. Download Google Maps

2. Follow blue line

Walk 3 ft

Catch the 56 bus for 36 stops

(See neighborhoods)

Get off and walk 400ft to Blue line stop

Wait for the 126 bus

3. Look around for bus stop

4. Realize that the 126 doesn’t stop here

5. Call an uber or head back to original mode of transportation

6. Wonder why Google was so off

7. Arrive destination on your left

You are seen

Sprawling across my wall

Maybe just getting from point A to B

But you scare me

Why do you have 8 legs?

Out Out

But I’m not going to touch you

So reach for something else

And now you’re gone

Well played

All it took was one prick

To get back

And the first place I go

Is to see a musical

The end of an era

Hi guys,

I’m Jade and this is my 4 or 5th marathon. I’m writing from Chicago. I’m excited and really hope everyone has a great time.

I climb the wall

Not of my own house

But one I used to know

You left your keys

And I can fit through

Your bedroom window

It’s a tight fit

And naturally I’m

Nervous

So I keep my eyes on the carpet

Of the floor

As I reach the floor

The time we were locked out

As Snape snarl at my

Hufflepuff robe

An owl drops in mail

And I witness

The social interaction

Of someone getting a howler

From their mom

Their grades have gone down

What’s more Headless Nick laughs

As I walk by

The great hall illuminates to

Welcomes me

The most interesting person I’ve met

Probably doesn’t exist

I wait

In the hopes

Someone completely

My opposite

Becomes my friend