Urvi Kumbhat
Depressed Poem from Gilmore Girls Quotes
It's all any of us wants:
to throw your life away—
the standing and the walking
and the words-putting-into-sentence doing—
commemorate it with an oil painting.
Not a lot to ask!
My other two personalities become
cynical and self-absorbed.
It was beautiful or something:
a motorcycle and more time.
If you're going, better
stop drinking coffee.
I, I stop doing.
Tomorrow, I'm planning on
despising a nice person.
Oh yes, in there: a social engagement.
Unless, however, you find a severed head.
Resolution for everyone who says,
Hey, how's it going? —
the proper signal is appropriate.
The way to indicate we're open
is to be mortified until we drop dead.
Urvi Kumbhat is an MFA candidate at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Her work appears in The Margins, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Apogee, Protean Magazine, and other publications. She grew up in Calcutta. You can find her on Twitter @curvi_k and Instagram at the same handle.