{"id":488,"date":"2016-12-21T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:17:50","slug":"everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- >On Arts Night, April 27th: For Paul.\nRead during Creative Writing I: For Dominick.\nRead during that one time in Mr. Emra's class: For Laikana (A girl in DA!!)\nRead during Welcome Week at the INK poetry night: For Georgia.\nRead during 2018 Fall Poetry Slam: For Jessica.<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>\n<--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if everything you\u2019ve ever read was something that was secretly about you? Every news article, email, ad, all aiming towards you and intended to be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> you. What if the person next to you, supposedly just typing on their keyboard, is writing about you, hoping that you\u2019ll read it? What if I\u2019m writing about you, hoping that you\u2019ll accidentally look over my shoulder and notice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m just hoping that you\u2019ll just look over and say, \u201cWow, what great writing!\u201d and I\u2019ll think, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, of course it is, my inspiration was sitting right next to me. It\u2019s all about you, how silly you are to not realize, look at all those metaphors, can\u2019t you even read them? They\u2019re obviously describing you in the most accurate way possible, down to the threadcount on your sweater. What great writing! I mean, I\u2019m sure you can read, but of course I think you can because you\u2019re ideal. You\u2019re just the best, aren\u2019t you?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cThanks,\u201d I\u2019ll say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t mean to say that I\u2019m in love with you, though. Don\u2019t think that. Well, do think that, but only to an extent. Because that\u2019s not the situation. I just want you to know that I appreciate you, and that a lot of other people do too. Know that we like your smile and your attitude, and when you\u2019re having a good day, so is the majority of the world. Coincidence? I think not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the newspapers disagree with your opinion, don\u2019t they? They say the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exact opposite<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as to what you were trying to say. How\u2019s that possible, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exact<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> opposite? They must be written about you, but the newspaper wanted to change it up, so they wrote the opposite of what they were supposed to write. Think about it. It makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to You Land: it\u2019s your life. It\u2019s like the Truman show, but in real life, so it\u2019s exactly like the Truman show. Nothing\u2019s changed, except your name, which may not be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exactly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unique, but I bet there\u2019s a person next to you who doodles your name in their free time. Whether or not they doodle their name with your last name after it is none of my business, but you might want to look into that. If you\u2019re interested.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is to say, there <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">might<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> be some people in love with you. I just thought you should know that. Because every piece of writing you have ever read is about you, from your Spanish textbook to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This whole planet: it\u2019s a youtopia. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if everything you\u2019ve ever read was something that was secretly about you? Every news article, email, ad, all aiming towards you and intended to be about you. What if the person next to you, supposedly just typing on their keyboard, is writing about you, hoping that you\u2019ll read it? 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