Poetry, Marie Olmedo
Today, I feel foolish
because I came to campus
early for class.
I strode down
and up the hills
Tossed in the glances of passersby
And in the sunlight,
Which,
as the two mixed,
coated me in a smugness
at my anomalous employment of time:
A beast I had finally figured out
And conquered.
But in reality,
I had missed my lecture completely
Just to be Awoken
from this hubris dream
While the hour gets the last laugh.
And usually, this would make me feel
Exceptionally useless and foolish,
But the air in the emerald shade
goes about its work,
Soothing my senses,
Altering my understanding of true productivity.
Time flicks its tick at me,
and tries to mock my mistake,
crying out for justice amidst
it’s irresponsible waste-
But today, I can ignore it.
These blades of grass know no time,
just the warmth of the sun
As she feeds them
So I’ll heed its advice,
Try not to think twice about my blunder
The blades cut at the stress
of my stationary,
Blankly-staring sitting
in the slowly cooling heat;
They remind me I’ve another chance
To try it all again
Tomorrow.
Marie Olmedo, known online as Googas, is a Mexican-American artist and poet from southeast Los Angeles. Googas delights in writing poems and prose articulating the soul’s innermost sentiments and differentia. Her words are crafted for the painfully sensitive and soft-hearted, for those navigating the broken promises of girlhood and life itself.
Googas has self-published several zines ranging from grief and suburbia’s complex tenderness to the battles between the despairing mind and hopeful heart. Marie has also been published in UCLA’s FEM NewsMagazine for her works of prose and research. Through it all, she hopes to make the world a sweeter and softer place.
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