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Dear Seniors,
Roll wide.
Roll bona fide.
Roll under the gumball tree
until you are that sticky-
gooey mixture: hard on the
outside, earnest once they start
chewing. Careful not to chomp;
careful you don't sprawl across the grass, cackle
like those late-night rom-com
chicks–the crazy ones they chuck
into episode 3 so the guys can
remember how much they miss their exes.
You’re not lying.
No, you’re that chef on Gordon Ramsay’s
cooking show everyone
thought would win until it turned out that
every cake had a rotting rear and
every cherry, a prickly pit.
It hurts to acknowledge that college
is coming up and you seek to slip
from the masses, flail
from friendships that your
loose tongue simply could not pin down.
All that anyone thinks about nowadays is legacy.
Will they carry your slouch of depression
or stride of hubris?
You’ll reunite in ten years,
tied together by whispers of
adolescence: broken compasses with no bearing
on who actually went to Goldman Sachs
and who became a janitor.
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Arthur Sadrian has been an avid writer and novelist since his crayon days. He has written over a dozen novels, novellas, novelettes, and poetry books by his own initiative and is published and forthcoming in literary magazines such as Beltway Quarterly, the Coterie, and Plum Tree Tavern. He has also served as an Editor on Polyphony Lit, Chief Content Officer at a startup, Copy Editor of his school’s yearbook committee, and is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.