Pens ‘N Things

By: Ashley Parks

Major: English and Theater

Year: Junior

Hometown: Woodbridge, VA

 

Click

Clack

Pressure

Release

Feel the streamlined plastic

slither across the surface

of your creped skin.

Or maybe the other way around.

Angles

Planes

Corners

Curves

Explore the many facets

and faces

to the heights of the eternal mountain.

Inhale, until you can

fully sniff out the artificiality,

taste the conquest of mass production

and caress the sweaty hands of conglomerate corporation.

But, use these tools

until the ink runs dry,

because the ink that’s running

is the calling card to forever.