Miss SugarCookie

Category: poetry

  • 2020-06-10 Three Types of Death

    2020-06-10 Three Types of Death

    All those days I wasted lamentingAll the sunsets I missed with my eyes fixed on a screen.All those neurons bounced around aimed at connection in pursuit of answers.The real opportunities missed as the clock ticks down to zero. Or near zero. Did you know that when you are pronounced dead, there’s a timer somewhere in…

  • 2020-05-28 Hide and Seek

    2020-05-28 Hide and Seek

    I start walking. I start writing. That’s my way. Lately I’ve felt like it’s all just the same shit on a different day. I’m inches away from getting my MFA in Poetry and I haven’t written anything worthy of a poem in months. A few times when I took a class with the “Todfather”, I…

  • 2020-05-13 No Rest For the Wicked Part 336

    2020-05-13 No Rest For the Wicked Part 336

    Why 336? Because it feels like It might just go on and on and on and one can’t escape being wicked if it’s a part of their nature. Riddle me this? Why do I have to spend 40 grand on a masters in fine arts which includes thousands (not exaggerating) of dollars for fees for…

  • 2020-04-29 Mathematics and Other Tragedies

    2020-04-29 Mathematics and Other Tragedies

    I could draw myself into a spiral. I could pretend to be a straight line or paint my life as an isosceles triangle in perpetual motion. The faster it spins, the more the points blur into circles that create borders that can’t be penetrated. If I was reborn as a star, would I have five…

  • 2020-04-28 Hidden Tracks, Nostalgia, and Serious Feels

    2020-04-28 Hidden Tracks, Nostalgia, and Serious Feels

    I’m listening to a new playlist I created last week. It’s pretty much the bomb and full of songs I’ve forgotten I loved so much and some new ones I didn’t even know I owned. Each new selection leads down another road of thought, which is pretty incredible, but it makes me feel sort of…

  • 2020-04-24 A New Setlist to Help Me Cope with Un-Planning

    2020-04-24 A New Setlist to Help Me Cope with Un-Planning

    Yesterday I had this poem knocking on my door and I was like “just a second, I gotta check my messages”. I got distracted by the day. The same poem knocked again later in the day but when I opened the door I found only echo and silence. And that’s when I know I’m still…

  • 2020-04-18 Wavelengths and Pages and Need for Connection

    2020-04-18 Wavelengths and Pages and Need for Connection

    Exactly one week from today is the deadline for getting my MFA thesis completed and in the proper format with all the required sections and content. Should be a snap cuz most of it has been done for weeks. I’ve just been fiddling with some of the poems and negotiating with my mentor about a…

  • 2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry

    To be fair, I’m really referring to just the one poem I’ve reworked a hundred different ways and each time I try to sneak it into my manuscript, my mentor says “nope”. To be fair, he’s only seen two versions of it and not the fifteen I wrote before or the 30 I thought about…