New Year’s Resolutions

• Be more spontaneous (inhibitions flung out but tethered on a string of anxious consciousness. audition for the role of spontaneity. planners are $14.99.)
• Lose weight (stop carrying rocks in your pockets. heavy is for snakes and money and gravity. grief is for lovers. stop carrying it in your pockets.) 
• Exercise (become a blood and bone tool under a giant grip. you get a core work-out from the nausea at the ballot box. pray.)
• Be more present (breathe in. think about the thinking. think about if unthinking can ever be thought. think about if thinking of the thinking is fumbling the present thought. exhale.)
• Read more (a library is a set is a three-quarter room. a trophy hunter on the corpse of an endangered species grins widely. show the camera just how good you are at dying and being reborn.) 
• Learn a language (invention of inventions that becomes the inventor. tense at the intangible ancestral collective delusion. tense at the different tenses. remember more than you think.) 
• Travel (a home only becomes one when you leave it. jet fuel tastes just as good as champagne and it’s all the same color. a stranger stole your shoes. steal a stranger’s shoes and keep walking.)

Parker Boom is a writer from San Diego, California, but was born in the Central Valley of California, and both are places she considers home. She is an avid consumer of coffee, history, peanut butter, and any and all concepts of the divine. She uses all of them to explore the balance between the abstract, the gritty, and the mundane. She is currently studying creative writing at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.