Sewage Princess

An Introduction
There are a lot of things that worry me- running, saying "hi" to people in the hallway, the inevitable demise of Earth via wormhole, and most of all making choices. And though this collection started off as a reflection on my last visit to India, during the summer of 2010, it strayed from course. It came to be a collection of pieces about anything that inspired me to write. Thus, I figured this would be better served as an introduction to what first inspired me to put pen to paper. As a child I combatted the aforementioned worries( running, wormhole, choices etc) alongside my equal parts stubborn and loyal imaginary friend, Lola, who was based loosely on the fiery redheaded sister from the cartoon about the pre-maturely balding four year old, Caillu. However, as I got older and it became culturally inappropriate to have entire conversations with myself in public, I began jotting these thoughts down. I wrote about the Martians I insisted inhabited space instead of recording phases of the moon in my lunar log, and created backstories for the bird inside our cookoo clock. This collection of pieces isn't much different, yes it stems from that trip, the cultural differences between India and America, but beyond that it is a series of my purely fictional accounts of some of my observations. I would also like to add that the poems are not necessarily from my pov even when I use "I".