Two minutes. Waiting. My heart is ready to burst. The lanes are naked, clean, ready to be torn up by cleats and sweat. Hundreds of eyes blinking and staring. Chatter swarmed into a calm storm underneath this dome. Waiting is the hardest part. The anticipation, building. Struggling to breathe as I strategize. Faster here. Ease up here. Go for the kill. Take him. A vision. It’s almost time. Everything is clenched. Find my c...

Any day like today Yesterday or Tomorrow. A lonely long sidewalk. Music Contained inside black shells Against your head. The same steps you’ve walked Your entire life. Notes building, gentle. Gliding sounds stringing Your childhood from birth in a Rushing creek of experiences. A vision never seen before. One step, two step, three. Breathe more, here it comes. The heartbreak floating beside The winning race like Sisters se...

My beginning: No control. Outside the window, the cold wind is howling and whipping back forth. Inside, deafening electronic music is pounding while dozens of drunken college kids slam their heads and blow their fists in the air. Steaming red lights beam into the room as half-drunk girls sip from their red cups and drift their eyes across the room, trying to latch on to something. Inside, the walls are cheap, paint chips...