a letter
to those who will remain unnamed
i thank you for my childhood
the small clumps of hair we chopped off with safety scissors never really grew back
the mud stains never washed out of my socks
my knees still scab over from the carpet burn we got together
running from growing up
somewhere, in the basement, the tinny television set still plays
those old reruns and VCRs we forgot to wind back
and on some bench there's still the plastic sleeve covered in sticky fingerprints
from the juice popsicles that our moms bought when we begged
so we could save our favorite flavors for each other
i still have the bracelet with your misspelled name
strung on the blues you thought were the same shade in the flashlight's beam
and in my drawer i have the almost empty notebook titled "Our Summer"
with amateur signatures in the top right corner and smiley face beneath them
that never got filled when you drove away in june
you don't have one name
and often i hit myself where you asked to kiss my cheek
because i forget one of them
and when i remember one
i scribble it in crayon on my heart
(i always forget that crayon fades
like the drawings i helped you with
when you were three)
now, when i'm the age you were
when you would push the swings
because i was too short to touch the ground
and my shoes would be too big
to line up perfectly with your purple ones
like you always liked to do
i wish you were still here
to split your jelly beans
wait at sticky bus stops
drink bittersweet lemonade
and help me forget
that one day you would walk off
in your hand-me-down pants
and take my childhood with you
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i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:
1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online
2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links
3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)
4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)
In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)
you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)
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