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How to Not Say Regret

By Grace Zhang

When karma shot him in

the bubble tea shop, they

shot you too. Heart fell straight

out of your chest, plopped across

the bamboo floor, thrashing like a

fish out of water. Its ugly veins

rupturing, spitting ostensibly.

A desiccated, carved out

hollow. Nightmares of

tapioca balls exiting the

revolver, ricocheting off

the walls, smearing all the

love letters you traced with

him in spilled sugar. How

to not burst whilst

rearranging burnt

bergamot orange and

darjeeling tea to call each other

“honey.” Now he bleeds

oolong like he used to

inhale it from your mouth in

between shifts, in

between the eternal spaces

where you didn’t utter it

back.

 

 

Grace Zhang is a seventeen year old from Princeton High hungry to get out of the bubble and experience the world. Her work has been nationally commended by the Scholastic Art & Writing awards and is forthcoming in the National Poetry Quarterly. Some things she likes are liminal spaces, peach oolong bubble tea, and the mundane morning stars.

 

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Summer 2018

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