The TV is flickering onto the news
Static cling clings and sings blues
The TV is flickering onto today
I turned it off but it comes true
Documentaries that I used to watch
And shudder and cry and donate
My money flew out to a void that won't fill
And it's eating the screen as I wait
The TV is flickering onto the news
I didn't try enough to stop it
Enough hands beside me could hold it all in
But I didn't reach out, there's no movement
My swaddle of blanket is white and soft
Expensive and tangled around me
I bury my head in the folds of it now
The static it rises to drown me
The TV is flickering onto the news
I still don't know where I can start
To blacken the screen 'til the end credits roll
And the walls behind finally can part
The TV is flickering onto the news
I hold the remote in my hand
The static sings brightly, waves over my head
I think that I can understand
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Blossom
A dead past does not put a halt to a new future. A year later, Kaffy, a highly intelligent, creative, bookish, and preppy Nigerian-Canadian 15-year-old girl was released from juvenile prison. She was arrested and charged with petty theft and assault, and was sentenced to a year in prison. Her sentence was supposed to be 6 months for stealing a lollipop, a chocolate bar, a pack of playing cards, and a bag of Cheeto's cheesies from 7-Eleven, but she received another 6 months for kicking, punching, and hitting another female inmate across the face during an altercation in the canteen.
By Talia Devora6 days ago in Fiction
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