LINES FROM MY MIDDLE SCHOOL POETRY NOTEBOOK THAT TAYLOR SWIFT CAN USE FOR HER NEXT ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT
By: Isabel Hardwig, Bad Habits Editor
Recently, TSwift announced her next album, “The Tortured Poet’s Department.” To prove what a tortured poet she was, her announcement included the triumphant final line, “The tick, tick, tick of love bombs / My veins of pitch black ink.”
Pretty good, Tay! But if you’re having trouble thinking of how to announce your next one, I dug up some lines from my middle school poetry notebook for you. Enjoy!
“We’re on the same boat . . . and it’s sinking.”
“My dreams are like a graveyard. Full of empty names.”
“The cigarettes she lit / on the walk from the train. / The violence in my veins / and the war inside my brain.”
“I have stolen from the sky. I took the spaces between its heartbeat.”
“If I could keep up a Snapchat streak / would she love me more?”
“Keep your regrets. I don’t want to be saved / by your hand, by your love, by your blade.”
“This year is gonna fit me like a new pair of jeans. Acid-washed, with rhinestones on the pockets.”
The full lyrics to “Demons” by Imagine Dragons, in unreadable cursive
I hold a lot of power in this cracked porcelain city / ‘cause their secrets weigh me down, and their insides aren’t so pretty.
“. . . because I am a GIRL WHO LIKES GIRLS / so nothing will ever be easy for me.”
Taylor, if you’re reading this, you’re welcome to any of these ideas free of charge. I know it can be hard to keep coming up with tortured poems, especially when you have things like geometry class and soccer practice getting in the way. I hope this helps you get that much closer to your next Grammy!
