Originally from Virginia, Lauren McKenzie Reed has taught everything from Composition to Creative Writing, and Grammar to ESL Poetry electives. In addition to teaching and writing, she has traveled, studied and worked in several other countries, including Germany, Mali, and the United Kingdom. She is currently teaching English as a Second Language to future teachers in Ukraine with the Peace Corps, so she has much more travelling and writing ahead of her.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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