The Howler Issue 2 | Page 76

Walden speaks A group of students and teachers join up to pour their souls out through lines of poetry. Walden Speaks held their first poetry reading Thursday December 8th at 5:30pm in the Wolf Den. The next reading will be April 2017. Anyone is welcome to submit their stories and share their tales. "I'm so proud of how raw a lot of this year's performances were. The kiddos really shared from the heart, showing their courage as they did." ~Abigail Cochrane A Selection from “Choice” by GBM But yellow stop lights. Yellow stop lights are the reason I have trust issues. I despise their dreadful demeanor a deal more than the existence of truthfully, anything else. The fact of their frantic changes of time stamps from town to town; trimming itself in Tubac, easing in Eloy and seeming mystical in Marana has caused anxiety currently and constantly while crossing these crossroads. I have ran four stop lights in the span of one year. Blame is being pointed to the abominable yellow light. I could ruin my creaking and weakening brakes if I seeked to stop, showing sympathy to red I could run a red light and patently pick up a ticket for trying to make it. Usually, I run. I wish I hadn’t, I wish I didn’t, I wish I wouldn’t, but I do.