Don't Look Back

(written while reading the Bible
and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut)

The thought of letting him go beats
around in my head like atoms
gaining speed. The pressure
is almost more than I can take.

I need to move on
because there is no life
in the past, only memories.
And trying to squeeze life
from a memory is like trying
to recreate the taste of apple pie
in your mouth.

Lot's wife couldn't stop looking
back at her life in Sodom and Gomorrah.
She turned into a pillar of salt.

And the farmer with his hand
to the plow couldn't make
a straight path.
He kept looking back.

It's time to say goodbye and look
forward to the newness of life
because "people aren't supposed to look back.
I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."

Jen Lacy is a Dark, Colombian Roast

by Sarah Lacy

Free thinkers filter their thoughts
With tea leaves and coffee beans.

Their secondhand clothes say,
“Vogue and Glamour, DON’T DRESS ME.”

You imagine their hair goes unwashed because
Late last night, Descartes changed their perspective.

Their friends watch “stream-of-thought” movies
About real life, starring Peter Sarsgaard.

They eat whole grains to feed the muse, and
Single-handedly, keep the used bookstore from going under.

They’re in your family and live next door.
They are the patrons of La Prima Tazza.

X's and O's

There's a fine line between friendship and romance,
but it has to work out with her,
because the transition between ex's and only friends
has never been an easy one.