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Illustration by Elizabeth Garver.

Welcome to Free Press Free Write, a weekly column written by the staff of The New School Free Press. Each week a new staff member might share a story, memory, maybe a DIY, or a week-in-review. Free Write is a space where our reporters, artists and editors can express themselves through writing. In times like these, writing can be an escape.

This week, one of our artists, Elizabeth Garver, a third-year product design student at Parsons, shares a poem.


Image of a collage with an orange background and a sunny side up egg.
Illustration by Elizabeth Garver.
245 E Houston St
Eggs Benedict always sounds like the perfect way to spend a Saturday
 Until it arrives to your table
 Cold and crunchy
 Snow underneath your feet 
 Tears in front of me
 Soaking through suede shoes
 Suede boots
 On South Broadway and
 Spring
 Never seems to come soon 
 Enough
 Time spent
 Waiting 
 Never seems worth it
 When all you eat
 Is the side of hashbrowns
 You said you’d split
 With me