‘NOTE TO SELF’ BY MATTHEW SHERLING
I live so I can be nostalgic
abt living
so I can think
abt it later
or
someone is living my life
& I’m thinking abt it
when I cry I feel
a thousand hawks fly
into my house
& gather their squawks
into my stomach
when I cry
I have no ideas
abt crying
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Matthew Sherling lives in San Francisco, where he likes to create things. He runs an interview blog called Cutty Spot & an online litmagazine, Gesture. Among other places, his work appears or is upcoming in The Colombia Review, The Believer, Thought Catalog, Fanzine, BIRP!, NAP, Upliterature & Banango Lit.
