Instructions:
Titles and Student Names in: Aller
(Titles Bold 36 pt, Names Regular 24 pt)
Article Text in: Chucaratext 20 pt
Caption Text in: Aller Italic, 16 pt
Use the provided color boxes to create background for title text when appropriate (each has a different level of transparency) by copying and pasting, then stretching as needed)
You can change the color on the left (think of using the dropper to match color to page art OR use the INK standard below.
Remember to consider space - can you use one page of a double page spread to have a full page gallery of art? Or spread one picture across a double page spread for a big impact?
With text, please stay within the established guides for space (Use the grid, and leave a 4 block "gutter."
Wrap text around photos to work with space when appropriate.
I Smacked You In the Mouth
For No Good Reason
by Carly McKenna '14
I smacked you in the mouth for no good reason
Like a sour lemon, or the sound of balloons popping in your ears
Maybe even that 5am wake up call
I smacked you in the mouth for the people who never had the courage to tell you to shut up
Your loud lips electrifying the room, bouncing off the walls
Your never ending reasons for why you were right and I was wrong
I can hear you rambling even when you’re not in my presense
Your voice has me look over my shoulder when it’s whispering in the wind
Your eyes spinning like a hurricane
Buzzing around like a broken pager
The sound of instruments laughing
Slumping down like a bull dogs wrinkles or that oh-so-cute baby fat
Hanging off like a monkey in a jungle
Rippling over you
Wrinkling your clenched lips to the taste of a sour patch
The cold slab of tile creeping up like a city of ants on a sweltering picnic day
You listen, whispers growing louder stretching into shouts
A boxing ring being built in the shadows of the wave crashing over you