Five Micro Essays

BLUNT 

this is blunt.

This is not.

because This is a sharpened knife.

there was no way for you to know that.

what an idiot.

 

NOTHING 

Zero plus zero is supposed to be zero.

And zero is nothing.

But, when I come home from school each day,

My dad always asks me what I learned,

And I say “nothing”,

But I still end up learning things by the end of the year.

Something doesn’t add up.

 

MY EX-BEST FRIEND 

We were best friends, but we’re no longer best friends

All of a sudden, she stopped replying to my texts.

I don’t know why.

She won’t tell me why, because we’re no longer best friends.

Will it happen again?

Will I make the same mistake?

I don’t know, because she won’t tell me what I did.

 

A NOTE ABOUT DISAPPOINTMENT 

I told myself not to get my hopes up.

I’m such a hypocrite.

 

ON MEETING NEW PEOPLE 

I’m going to be as weird as I want.

If you can’t handle me, well, that’s okay.

As long as someone can.

Because I want friends, but I don’t want to change myself for you.

Not my weirdness, at least.

I need that part.

You can try to influence the rest, I guess.

But not too much, please