Glass Lungs, Bright Sparks

At ten years old, they told me a pill would fix the broken clock inside my head. They promised focus. They promised stillness. They didn't tell me I'd have to trade my own soul for it.

First, I learned to swallow the static, to be the good, numb boy whose perfect grades made everyone proud. Then, I learned to sell that quiet in the locker room, to crush up the promises and chase a different kind of light. And when that light wasn't enough, I found a new god in a shard of glass-a terrible, electric fire that burned away the boy I was, and the boy I was pretending to be.

These poems are what's left after the blaze. This book is the black box recording of that fall, a map of the road from a doctor's signature to a shattered windshield. It's a story of how a cure can become its own disease, and what it feels like to stand in the wreckage, breathing, and begin the quiet work of seeing who you are now.

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Glass Lungs, Bright Sparks

At ten years old, they told me a pill would fix the broken clock inside my head. They promised focus. They promised stillness. They didn't tell me I'd have to trade my own soul for it.

First, I learned to swallow the static, to be the good, numb boy whose perfect grades made everyone proud. Then, I learned to sell that quiet in the locker room, to crush up the promises and chase a different kind of light. And when that light wasn't enough, I found a new god in a shard of glass-a terrible, electric fire that burned away the boy I was, and the boy I was pretending to be.

These poems are what's left after the blaze. This book is the black box recording of that fall, a map of the road from a doctor's signature to a shattered windshield. It's a story of how a cure can become its own disease, and what it feels like to stand in the wreckage, breathing, and begin the quiet work of seeing who you are now.

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Glass Lungs, Bright Sparks

Glass Lungs, Bright Sparks

by nick good
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Glass Lungs, Bright Sparks

by nick good

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At ten years old, they told me a pill would fix the broken clock inside my head. They promised focus. They promised stillness. They didn't tell me I'd have to trade my own soul for it.

First, I learned to swallow the static, to be the good, numb boy whose perfect grades made everyone proud. Then, I learned to sell that quiet in the locker room, to crush up the promises and chase a different kind of light. And when that light wasn't enough, I found a new god in a shard of glass-a terrible, electric fire that burned away the boy I was, and the boy I was pretending to be.

These poems are what's left after the blaze. This book is the black box recording of that fall, a map of the road from a doctor's signature to a shattered windshield. It's a story of how a cure can become its own disease, and what it feels like to stand in the wreckage, breathing, and begin the quiet work of seeing who you are now.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798349518478
Publisher: Nickgood
Publication date: 07/25/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 30
File size: 768 KB
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years
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