Neuro Logical
I filled out a form - Mary Kate Nyland
I filled out a form to enter the country.
I filled out a form to fly.
I filled out a form to stand in a crowd of electrified goths, ping ponging their necks forth and
back.
I filled out a form to spin in circles.
I filled out a form to ride the cyclone.
I filled out a form to sweep sand from my hair and dance with geriatric swingers.
I filled out a form to wipe wine from my eyes and watch the warmth dry up.
I filled out a form to grieve.
I filled out a form to let men disappoint me.
I filled out a form to shave my entire body and walk home alone.
I filled out a form to pay rent.
I filled out a form to capsize a bicycle and tear my kneecap open and I filled out a form to do it
again.
I filled out a form to slide into a camera lens and photograph my insides.
I filled out a form to gluestick 20-something sensors to my scalp and pray for a seizure.
I filled out a form to rip them out and fall to the floor, half-woman, half-machine, a mane of
rainbow wires running the length of my spine.
I filled out a form to fill in my eyebrows.
I filled out a form to eat nothing but macaroni and cheese for a month.
I filled out a form to run out the clock.
I filled out a form to figure out how my mother screwed me up.
I filled out a form to tell my therapist that I actually think she’s being kind of hard on my mom,
who tried her best, really.
I filled out a form to honor my sister.
I filled out a form to be inoculated in a windowless hospital in Queens.
I filled out a form to reroute my DNA.
I filled out a form to change.
I filled out a form to give pizza hut my passport number.
I filled out a form to eat hot chocolate mix with a sterling silver table spoon.
I filled out a form to gain a superiority complex.
I filled out a form to call an uber.
I filled out a form to sleep in my contacts.
I filled out a form to fend off a panic attack.
I filled out a form to engage in a healthy dialogue.
I filled out a form to cry.
Bio:
Mary Kate Nyland is an Irish American writer based in Dublin, pursuing a Master's degree in Creative Writing from UCD. She has forthcoming work in Beaver Magazine.