Be Sweet published in Children, Churches & Daddies at Scars.tv in 2004 and Swallow the Moon, a student assembled publication at Oakland University, in 2005 No taste for the bitter drink, I wet my lips, I take a deep breath. A casual stare can burn hard images into a boy's brain. So I just smile, I nod, feeling like a small girl in grown-up land. Now my thoughts run blank, twitching, I cross my arms to keep me steady. Unsteady, I want my dreams, keep these eager hands away, push their voices into boxes made of whispers. To be alone, to be sweet.