True/False

By Maddie Lynn

1. There is a girl trapped in a moon.
2. A cat meows at 11:59 every night.
3. There are rocks in my shoe.
4. The rain bounces off the tin roof (and)
5. She can’t hear the arguments.
6. Always look for the brightest star.
7. Her name is Pluto.
8. We all believe in ourselves, even if just a little.
9. Angles don’t have wings.
10. Nothing ever makes sense.
11. This paper airplane has a message inside.
12. This is not true beauty.
13. She is stuck in the middle.
14. I don’t have a good side.
15. Everyone has a reason to stay.
16. Love is spelled C-A-U-T-I-O-N.
17. There are no warning signs.
18. Water is not transparent.
19. Neither is she.
20. Owls always ask why.
21. Days are longer when spent outside.
22. Hospital bills are way too much for a poor family.
23. My pockets have holes in them.
24. Penguins are afraid of the dark.
25. Brownie batter bubble gum.
26. Time moves on.
27. The bananas are brown again.
28. We need to go to the store.
29. Some plants need more water than others.
30. I want to grow.
31. You never grow out of childhood.
32. The people in this poem are all imaginary.
33. These angels are complementary.
34. The clock is stuck at 3:15.
35. The homeless poet has a home.
36. Flowers don’t need food.
37. She is wearing a fishing hook for an earring.
38. Everything is accidental.
39. Everything is theoretical so the people you don’t want to exist don’t have to.
40. The moon is flat, and we are living on top of it.
41. Grab a jacket.
42. The answer.
43. My mouth is a zipper.
44. Baby it’s cold outside.
45. And it is full of marbles.
46. Her mouth. His lips.
47. You are made of glass.
48. You are an owl.
49. You ask yourself so many questions (and)
50. Go to number 42.
51. Maybe the people in this poem are real after all.
52. We all play Kristen Bell.
53. Our lives are just living in fiction.
54. My roots are overgrown.
55. The 14th floor is the 13th if there isn’t a 13th.
56. You can’t avoid bad luck.
57. I put dominos in my tea.
58. Always chew on dice.
59. The sky has cracked down the middle.
60. She lays down on her bedroom floor.
61. C h em i cal s.
62. This water doesn’t work anymore.  
63. Organs don’t have keys.
64. I don’t know what my zipcode is.
65. The Queen bee refuses to make honey anymore.
66. She kamikazies into a car window.
67. We’re all going to die someday.
68. Slurpee slipping through a straw.
69. She’s finally in adult sizes at Target.
70. Dying young has comfort in it.
71. Virgo. Virg. Virgi. Virgin.
72. I am both, and maybe you didn’t need to know.
73. The glass pyramid is not the glass castle.
74. We can never achieve perfection.
75. I ask myself how they ended up together.
76. Nothing is impossible.
77. I’ve been told conspiracies don’t exist, but I believe.
78. Everything is everything, but nothing all at once.
79. Nothing has meaning until you assign it.
80. I gave a boy meaning, but he didn’t caution me back.
81. Constellations remind me of how many sprinkles can fit into a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
82. Eating lettuce won’t help you lose weight.
83. I know too much about the L Word.
84. There are always 13 sides to every story.
85. The rain forest will be the only place to find trees.
86. I’ve never learned how to read
87. people.
88. I change the lyrics in songs to fit how the moon feels.
89. This poem can only last so long.
90. Mayflies, bye.
91. The worst things in life are the most expensive.
92. Wikihow doesn’t have an article for How to Pay For a Funeral When You Don’t Have the Money.
93. You have to move quickly.
94. Maybe the sky has 42s.
95. I overthink everything that happens to fall in my path; maybe he just doesn’t like looking at the stars.
96. He always brings beer in opaque bottles, but doesn’t think we know what he’s doing.
    96.5. Even at the hospital where she was born.
97. This was the first time he’s ever held a baby, even after having two kids of his own.
98. Water has memory, but does it remember?
99. I’ve written about you so many times, that my pen automatically begins to cry.
100. This world is just a big crater, and I don’t know how to fix it.
101. Everything always has to be a little extra.
102. This is the end of the phone call where I say goodbye.
103. You are at the prime of your life.