Anaphylaxis scares me in that I sometimes see a reflection.<\/p>\n
The Floridaness emits from her, and myself<\/p>\n
Who else in my friend group is florida?<\/em> Her Florida intermix with Massachusetts stories Florida-Massachusetts What’s similar?<\/em><\/p>\n the Florida-Massachusetts mix, I need air How many florida-massachusetts?<\/em><\/p>\n -in the stories of my friends who are Massachusetts, humidity is a wall, What of florida do i recall?<\/em><\/p>\n every mother gives a sick child gatorade. every one has at least one relative who works at a rainy spirit of the sunshine state encourages nurtured and forged and later transplanted to the bizarre bipolar cousin, a ghost breaches the surface and takes its breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anaphylaxis scares me in that I sometimes see a reflection. The Floridaness emits from her, and myself Who else in my friend group is florida? Who else in my friend group is florida-massachusetts? Her Florida intermix with Massachusetts stories All said in a vague Bostonian, otherwise neutral voice Once i hear it i can’t unhear … Continue reading (may)flower<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6885],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6885"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 11:14:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWho else in my friend group is florida-massachusetts?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAll said in a vague Bostonian,
\notherwise neutral voice
\nOnce i hear it i can’t unhear it<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI’m scared if, like her, I’m turning into a New Englander.
\nI don\u2019t want to lose my sense of self
\nbut growth occurs in transformation
\nmy fear is the unknown parameters of change<\/p>\n
\nthe eccentricism,
\nthe assholery,
\nthe wetlands,
\nthe same atlantic,<\/p>\n
\nand I frantically swim toward the surface<\/p>\n
\nFlorida,
\nand Florida-Massachusetts:
\nexists a campy bizarreness nurtured under the lying palm “trees”
\nexists a campy bizarreness nurtured under the sporadic oaks
\nunder sun showers and sweltering humidity
\nunder overcast and depressing humidity.<\/p>\n
\nhumidity suffocates.<\/p>\n
\nyou grow gills at the age of 2 1\/2.<\/p>\ndisney world<\/del> Walt Disney World\u2122.<\/p>\n
\na vibe
\nan aura
\nan ethos
\na soul over the budding camp in the dirt
\na blistering humor and spicy absurdism that dampens the soil with the spirit’s tears<\/p>\n
\nthe Commonwealth,
\nby the juxtaposition, the Florida-Massachusetts,<\/p>\n