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TRASH BAG WITH A FACE

VINCE RAPPA
Your scaredy cat's gone sideways through
our paved grassland highways to make sure not to look         directly           into the building's eyes    

under the assurance from the neuron groundskeepers          that         this boy can keep himself sound
listen    closely                                   he's not been there for a while and     now we're sure              he's
openly paranoid about the outside world         we hope it's not permanent(It pr
                obably is)
Keep your kids close, because they could end up like this guy, thinking       his roommates are
looking for a reservation         at Dorsia
in                                                  fact
keen observations will show that       the world isn't against him and won't ever be
               Everyone
– 
you know maybe not everyone–   but at least some people are his friends, not that he'll see that
or even acknowledge it for the next few years, we guess it's hard being a newborn adult
under what circumstances this came about we dunno, it's not our job to figure that out
                very soon it won't be our job to do anything but be burned
except for the ones next to us who get to be notebooked and filled with water, at the start the kid
saw us as a big threat, maybe the most memorable part of his first few months staying here,
                excerpts from chicken-scratch confessionals will show his decayed state
eventually he'll come to an     agreement         and
                no longer refuse the help,
After all
Good people will make him cough the ashes out, forgetting the
horrible tidings and     we        didn't    mean    to cause such anxiety it
obfuscates the poor kiddo thankfully we can say as a newly achieved
smoke stack that                             he's been           doing fine and finally got
The spark back                the one we were told                 left him               a long while ago.

Header art by T. Guzzio.

CONNECT WITH VINCE:

Vince Rappa is a recent grad out of Lake Forest College where he stumbled into an English degree. Testimonials for his writing include; "He uses his words in ways that make you want to lie on the floor and waste away your days listening to experimental jazz," "As a good friend, I read them like I was asked to," and  "That sure was a poem." Until he perfects his craft he can be found in his room playing Street Fighter. You can follow him on Twitter @MistahRappa.​

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