Originally published 1/20/2009. Recorded on my mom's computer after hearing Obama's inauguration speech in the car on the way home from school. I was 15.

Inauguration 2009

Interview with Geoff Gevalt, founder of Young Writers Project, with audio from YWP's 2010 First Night performance and Kaki King.
Originally published January 2010.
Image via burlingtonfreepress.com

Journalism in the age of Facebook

WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow doesn't have a fuckin' clue
I went to Yahoo Answers, they said shove it up my ass
So I went to SparkNotes, told me how to pass my class

but WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow doesn't have a fuckin' clue

about my arm around your waist
and your disappointed face
and your perfect lips saying that we're through--
what did I do--

WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow doesn't have a fuckin' clue
The Wikipedia page on love's
all hearts and doves and stars above
and dopamine and serotonin,
no apologies and no atonement
the Internet's no place to go
to look up what I should have known

WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow can't tell me how to love you
WikiHow doesn't have a fuckin' clue

So if Google cannot save the day
I'll shut my mouth, behave, and pray
that magically you'll take me back right now--
or someone will respond on Wi--ki--How--------

Image from wikihow.com

Bridget Iverson