Lakeview, Chicago
I used to think if I could just see the lake, I wouldn’t feel alone. From my eighteenth floor window, the despair nudges me closer to looking down.
this old feeling… the ghosts I know come home to haunt
—Amelia Cotter
Issue 19.1 | 2 July 2019
Great! The high rise reminded me of a symbolic bird …
Hoopoe, up in the sky Detects water Underneath earth layers… The valuable secrets
Edgy. Finely balanced…
If too desperate, telephone SUICIDE HOTLINE, now! ?
Recognizable for me, but my old ghosts have turned into company and no longer uncomfortable.
Thank you all for the responses, and thank you to tinywords for publishing this piece! Spoiler alert: I did not jump.
Very nice, intimate and moving! Congrats! NEVER COMMIT SUICIDE. OF COURSE YOU KNOW THAT. There is always too much to enjoy and indulge in and live and experience and share! After all, suicide means eternal loss of soul in the afterlife….
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July 2nd, 2019 at 8:50 am
Great!
The high rise reminded me of a symbolic bird …
Hoopoe, up in the sky
Detects water
Underneath earth layers…
The valuable secrets
July 2nd, 2019 at 9:43 am
Edgy. Finely balanced…
July 2nd, 2019 at 3:26 pm
If too desperate, telephone
SUICIDE HOTLINE, now! ?
July 2nd, 2019 at 4:38 pm
Recognizable for me, but my old ghosts have turned into company and no longer uncomfortable.
July 3rd, 2019 at 7:48 am
Thank you all for the responses, and thank you to tinywords for publishing this piece! Spoiler alert: I did not jump.
July 9th, 2019 at 1:02 am
Very nice, intimate and moving! Congrats! NEVER COMMIT SUICIDE. OF COURSE YOU KNOW THAT. There is always too much to enjoy and indulge in and live and experience and share! After all, suicide means eternal loss of soul in the afterlife….