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You Made Pancakes For Your Family and I Am Melting

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by Jake Price

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Loving you is cruel like that.


You Made Pancakes For Your Family and I Am Melting by Jake Price Hazel. Whatever that means. Brown - green - amber pools that exist around a pupil glowing in the sunlight while you stand here with your hands in your pockets and tell me about your morning. Who do you think you are? You’re beautiful in an ugly way, a violent way, the best way. Your hair is messy, the strands are shining, and your smile lines are carved into your skin. I just realized I love you. A couple of months ago we had a conversation I know you don’t remember. You told me you were five and got a slingshot for your birthday and you shot at birds and cried when they died. You kept aiming at them regardless, mourning their loss, a robin in your crosshairs. Loving you is cruel like that. I was sitting on my fathers’ parents’ trampoline, also five, and I would pull the wings off butterflies and rip the legs off spiders. Maybe your hazel eyes are like a magnifying glass in the hands of a kid focusing the sun on my chest waiting for smoke. I want to explode.

© Jake Price

Jake Price (he/him) is a sophomore student at Susquehanna University pursuing a degree in creative writing. He was born in Texas and currently resides in Pennsylvania. He spends most of his time reading his work to his cat, Raven, who has yet to give him any feedback. Writing has been a passion of his for as long as he can remember, and he hopes to make it into his career one day. Jake has an Instagram account where he posts his poetry, @nolenprice, that has amassed over 3100 followers as of writing this. His poetry has been published in Rivercraft Magazine, Poet Lore Magazine, and Cream Scene Carnival.

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