Bad Day Cards

Bad Day Cards

 

I traded my bad day cards for

whirring bicycle wheels,

pawned quarters

from community vending machines,

and traded them for melted ice cream

with sunken gumball eyes,

and colors creating a Van Gogh backdrop

catapulting in our dreams, each night.

 

 

Alyssa Trivett

 

 

Alyssa Trivett is a wandering soul from the Midwest. When not working two jobs, she listens to music and scrawls lines on the back of gas station receipts. Her work first appeared in [now-defunct] Scapegoat Review, has appeared in Peeking Cat, VerseWrights, and recently at In Between Hangovers, Tuck Magazine, Communicators League, and Duane's PoeTree site.