English Class

by Haley Reid

So many thoughts

inside my head

They fight and rattle

jumble, wrestle, and kill each other off

Analogies, synecdoches,

soliloquies, colloquialisms,

allusions, illusions.

What’s the difference

between intellect and illness

Nothing is everything

Everything is nothing

Art begets art and art           I forget.

My words mean what I mean

My words mean what you see

My words see what you mean then mean something new

I float somewhere between you and me

somewhere behind my words

Should I say what I’m supposed to

Or what I want to?

So I say nothing So scared of being seen