Stories

What And Is (1/23)

Anya Geist

and and what is and?

and is between even though is is between between and and and is walking and talking and is cause and effect and is so and so it isn’t its own you don’t say and by itself because it is the link through which everything goes

and is falling and falling through the ground and lights glaring and a dragon rearing its head and then waking up in a flash and realizing it was all a dream

and is family aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents and vacation and food and avocado brownies and e v e r y single thing that makes up a miniscule moment of life

and and is when a little kid keeps on telling a story and then this and then that until you are exhausted but the ands and the twists and the turns just keep coming

and is everything and and is nothing it is change it is crucial a conjunction that goes between everything in life

and this poem is and

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