the city // liana tai 🏙
Channel: liana tai
Date: 15/05/2020

this is something i wrote for the escapril challenge that fit the last assignment i had for creative writing!! 
i edited it like crazy and here is the finished product! 
i do not have it memorized as you can tell, but one day i might get better at that :)

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the city
by liana tai

i never understood new york city.
there were too many
frantic people
polluted stairwells and
jaywalking and 
red lights and
pushy tour guides and 
feeling too small and 
blasting honks and 
piss on the ground
for me to even fathom 
how someone could call this home.

and then i grew up.
and it became
full of family and
thanksgiving and 
brooklyn and 
italian restaurants and 
broadway and
love.

(but this isn't a poem about
how i understand new york city.
just wait.)

when i was growing up,
i would travel to san francisco 
to visit in the summertime.
and i understood more.
i liked the little shops and
fog and
the pale waves and 
living your truth and 
trolley carts and
the feeling of being accepted by everyone you pass,
bright, magical colors and
the big red bridge they called golden.
every year it seems more magical and bright.
i wish i was back there.

(i didn't understand why everyone looked like me.
but that's a different poem.
one with a tattoo.)

twice i visited seattle.
each time i fell more in love.
the bright blue water and
pike place market and
the feeling of being present and 
beautiful skies and 
diverse houses and 
being curious about trying new things.
figuring out the world 
eating a warm muffin
with a huge window looking out at the ocean. 
that is seattle.

(one day i hope to go there with a one way ticket.
one day i hope to say, "i'm home.")

richmond was once just 
a one & a half hour ride from my house.
the place for 
museums and
cary town and
botanical gardens and
musicals and
short pump trips and 
leaving cville for the day.

i didn't know a packet 
in the mail could change that.
in the fall,
richmond will be 
starting over and 
new friendships and
skateboarding and 
struggling and 
diverse cultures and
dorm life and
breathing murals and 
missing my old normal and 
thrifting and
living with more color and
home.


and i understand that i won't understand everything at first
like i did new york city,
but i'm so ready to try.

(college town girl takes small steps 
towards idealistic city life. 
she awaits eagerly to start.)

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