3 poems

by corinne delmonico

illustrations by palomine studios

you know you know i guess whatever like and she goes and i go and she’s like right all right i’ll do it time passes well well what are you going to do it do what you know what no what you know and she goes and i’m like i said i’d do it stop confusing me i’m not confusing you how do you know i’m me not you you’re not me are you going to do it i said i would this is getting ridiculous then leave just leave all right i’m leaving time passes well well what what

a dream last night i had the strangest dream actually it wasn’t very strange i was walking down a road i had to get somewhere to take a test there were rivers and mountains and a seashore had to take the test i had been studying for all my life - to miss the test would be shameful and make my whole life meaningless but what could i do? the test must be starting and i didn’t even know where i was or how to get anywhere it was not a very interesting dream but i am not a very interesting person i just kept walking

autobiography i never climbed a mountain or swum across a sea i always wanted to be someone else but i’m still only me