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SELECTIONS FROM JORDAN CASTRO'S TWITTER
JORDAN CASTRO, EDITED BY MEGAN BOYLE


from YOUNG AMERICANS


May 6
just finished my last day of high school

May 11
perceived @mallory_whitten from a distance larger than the actual distance between us and heard her say 'i don't know how to formulate this'

May 14
just want to write a book so good that all of my behavior is excusable

May 16
slept ~3 sec and woke experiencing a distinct, real-seeming memory of me telling a stoic, native american man to 'leave my cars alone'

May 22
thought 'i look too good to be doing this shit' while laying in fetal position on bedroom floor and crying

May 22
feel like a broken-but-fixable robot whose owner can afford to replace me but hasn't yet

May 26
feel like a weird, retarded sea urchin with an abnormally long neck who sees things ~6% slower than all other sea urchins

May 30
imagined eddie murphy floating in a park with a turtle shell on his back

Jun 4
~5 min after feeling 'amazing', began eating carbs, watching tv, and thinking 'hellish' thoughts in an earnestly involuntary-seeming manner

Jun 12
imagined a 'droid x' with a 'mr. potato head' type face repeatedly bang- ing its head against the wall, saying 'mown jah loh mon eselom'

Jun 14
diarrhea anne frank

Jun 18
just stood up, lost 'all control' of left leg and fell into an arcade game, making a loud noise and 'yelping' #xmenlivetweet

Jun 18
man in theatre rhythmically 'yelped' 3x and i immediately assumed he was lonely and worked in a cubicle #xmenlivetweet

Jun 18
thought i thought 'i can't feel my legs' 3x then realized an xman said it...#xmenlivetweet

Jun 23
noticed myself re-thinking all emotional thoughts in a 'beyonce style vibrato' for an amount of time then kept doing it 'for fun,' alone

Jun 25
feel like a 50 y/o man reflecting on his life in a severely detached/disinterested manner while sitting in his cubicle and staring

Jun 26
closed my eyes and imagined a stoic, strong-seeming native american face moving slowly 'into my face'

Jun 26
thought the bathroom fan was a radio playing a 'kiss-esque' song with lyrics 'let's go, oh yeah, put the belly on, i'm in the woods'

Jul 1
'see you', as a typed salutation, seems weird/insane to me, but 'see ya' seems perfectly normal...

Jul 5
if 100 people retweet this i'll earnestly try to rip my penis off in a video

Jul 18
idly yearned for the universe to 'have a blanket' to cover me/my surroundings with when i'm awake at 5AM, alone, looking at facebook...

Jul 22
feels like i'm breaking into random houses in 'broad daylight' and 'rummaging around' for 'happiness'

Jul 27
can't remember what a living turkey looks like...

Aug 4
want to express that 'despite how depraved/sad/mean i might seem, i'm actually, in fact, quite [something]'...

Aug 4
saw an obese mom and 5x obese children in running outfits eating meatball subs around the trunk of their mini van

Aug 7
thought 'pound time' excitedly while staring at a pile of muffins and a cake

Aug 8
there are things i can change in my concrete reality to feel less bad but for some reason i feel completely unable to change them

Aug 10
my brain feels like a firm, square container holding something rumored to be 'magical' but in reality is just weird and unwieldy

Aug 16
seems like 'even my death' will be an untimely/annoying accident

Aug 17
feel paralyzed by both 'feeling truly alone in the world' and 'being able to do anything because of being alone'...

Aug 25
today is the first day of my freshman year of college