Sometimes you are just walking through life, minding your own business, then something happens. Or everything happens; something joyous, something awful, something completely random. How do you react? How do you deal and cope with the situation? How do you cross the street in New York City? It is all a bombardment of things flying are way and coming in our direction. These poems are just reactions to some of those things. The poems progress with satire and comedic wording. They are about life, events that occur within life and the emotions that we feel within certain events and interactions. Emotions develop, maturity grows, and understanding is achieved within life and within the progression of these poems. 101 ways to Jaywalk...Without looking is a series of metaphors of life and how to attempt to deal with life. Everyone has had that terrible breakup, felt like the lowest form of being on earth, made realizations about themselves; these poems vocalize some of these experiences and interactions within life. Sometimes we have no guide, or rulebook, so we do not know which way to go. Sometimes we are confused and thoughts are muddled and we just go on day by day with no plan, no words, and low expectations. Then we overcome these things and realize who we are and what we want to be, what we want to do in life, and what we want from life. We also know what we want from ourselves, from others, and from the world in general; we devise plans and understandings in order to achieve what we want. Yet, from time to time, people, emotions and decisions can get in the way. Then we have to untangle the knots that have constructed in our minds, hearts, spirits, and lives. Within doing this, we learn to cope and we understand who we are. So, we have in our minds what to expect from life and from others, but we are still somewhat selectively blind to certain things, emotions, and occurrences.
About the Author: Magdalene is an up and coming writer who has worked hard in academia, attaining two Master's degrees. She has taken this chance to compile a book of poems based on the satires and irony of life. She was raised in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. She observes the things that go on in New York City, than interprets them in a funny manner from time to time. She went to college in Rochester, studying at Nazareth College. She continues to write and pursue her academic goals.