My Dark Nessa

Black tea. Peanut butter sandwich breakfasts. Chalk dust and blackboards. Seaglass octagonal bay windows. Skeletal maple trees. October. August. Red hair. Maine. Boarding school. Childhood bedrooms. Corduroys. Mary Jane sandals. Liquid. Red wine. English teachers. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Classic literature. Burning cigarettes. A yellow labrador puppy. Silk nighties. Strawberry pajamas. Journaling again. Reading. Resolutions to be better. Get a job. Write more. Not thinking about the world ending. Dystopian. Season 10 of Adventure Time where all of the people’s veins are wires, and they’re breathing through tubes. More black tea. Peanut butter straight from the jar. Sucking sticks of chalk. Dust. Blackboards. Sitting by the bay window. Cutting my wrist on seaglass. Autumn trees. October and the month of August. Red. Hair. Maine.