Montreal-based publishing entity Metatron is guest editing Everyday Genius this month. We'll be featuring excerpts from our new fall catalog as well as Canadian writers we like. Today's author is cool bro Jay Winston Ritchie.
How To Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying On The Inside
Open the fridge.
Stare at near-empty jar of peanut butter.
Spread peanut butter on white bread.
Feel
borrowed nostalgia for white bread.
Pour a glass of water.
Drink the water - does it taste
weird?
Drink it anyway.
Walk around in the rain when it rains.
Open your arms
to the air
like in the Shawshank Redemption
like you just don’t care.
Break into the community pool
with your most attractive
co-worker
and feel like you should kiss her
more than you actually
want to kiss her.
Go to the library.
Log in to Facebook.
Scroll through
newsfeed.
Scroll through newsfeed.
Hide in library bathroom.
Look out bathroom window
at the
rain in the trees.
Jay Winston Ritchie is the editor-in-chief of The Void Magazine and the author of How To Appear Perfectly Indifferent While Crying On The Inside (Metatron, 2014) and Something You Were, Might Have Been, or Have Come to Represent (Insomniac Press, 2014). He lives in Montreal.
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