I don't want to play guitar - by Jillian Clark

i just want to study

and drink a capri-sun

and feel like a three year old

and eat noodles

and listen to music that makes me tired

and fall asleep sitting under my covers

with my face in my notebook

i want to read everything on the internet

and still have time to study

actually i want to make a list of what my priorities should be

and then rearrange them

i will read everything

and i will fail my tests

and i will drink another capri sun

this was not actually a poem

this is actually the truth

straight from me to you

what i am feeling right now

i will do this more often

Spring 2008 Contents

Issue 1 - Cover

Spring 2008

Image - Ozlem Ozgen 

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Main Entry:

phoe·nix

Pronunciation: \ˈfē-niks\

noun

Etymology: Middle English fenix, from Old English, from Latin phoenix, from Greek phoinix

Date: before 12th century

: a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.


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