Tag: Poe

By Katherine Magyarody-Sigal
A few days ago, I climbed the stairs to my apartment and encountered my landpeople, who let me know that they had been in to check on some electrical wiring. They are extremely nice and shy about coming into our space. Anyways, I made it up the final flight of stairs and dumped my bookbag onto the kitchen table. And I looked over. And I froze. And I hoped that in their journey across the apartment, they did not look at the kitchen table and did not see the cookie sheet there, on which I had composed the worst fridge-magnet poetry ever. Poetry…not even poetry…words that makes me seem delusional, lovelorn, possibly homicidal. It begins:
if nevermore
I mourn that kiss
my silent scream
will make him howl Continue reading “Guest Post: Ways for English Graduate Students to Scare Landlords with Terrible Fridge Magnet Poetry”